The Grand Duchy of Bans Chum is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.113 billion Bans Chumians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Badger Bay. The average income tax rate is 83.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Bans Chumian economy, worth 399 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 78,081 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, the latest superhero movie features a caped badger with adamantium claws, large sections of Bans Chum have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, and weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bans Chum's national animal is the badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Mustelidism.

Bans Chum is ranked 28,489^th in the world and 500^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 1,919.32 on the Societal Mobility Rating.