The Holy City of Barcella is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Teyrn Lucco II vos Deradi with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 15.292 billion Barcellans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Barcella. The average income tax rate is 27.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Barcellan economy, worth 894 trillion kamas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,525 kamas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Beggars lack pockets for spare change, sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming, restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Barcella, and a revolving door was recently installed at the entrance of the Barcellan Capitol Building. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Barcella's national animal is the lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Maumiqism.

Barcella is ranked 122,541^st in the world and 9^th in Ulthos for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,081.38 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.