The Armed Republic of Best Swashbuckler is a massive, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.979 billion Best Swashbucklerians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality are ignored. The average income tax rate is 16.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Best Swashbucklerian economy, worth 82.0 trillion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,428 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Best Swashbuckler's national animal is the cow, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Best Swashbuckler is ranked 275,834^th in the world and 352^nd in Colonia Apollonis for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -11.4 on the Clooney Contribution Index.