The NationStates ~~TYPE~~ of A Badly Conceived Designation is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by ~~LEADER~~ with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.523 billion ~~DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL~~ are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ~~CAPITAL~~. The average income tax rate is 23.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ~~DEMONYMADJECTIVE~~ economy, worth a remarkable 3,405 trillion ~~CURRENCY~~s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 183,834 ~~CURRENCY~~s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Human resources employees have time for hobbies as harassment is designated "high praise", birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire, ad hoc militias patrol the streets in an effort to control rampant crime, and ABCD-SPAN features senators wrestling with ever-increasing production elements. Crime is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. A Badly Conceived Designation's national animal is the ~~ANIMAL~~, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is ~~FAITH~~.

A Badly Conceived Designation is ranked 285,871^st in the world and 37^th in Testregionia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 0.81 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.