The Great People's Jamahiriya of Burcistan is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Mirwais Khan Al-Hilali with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, devout population of 4.189 billion Burcistani are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Darushabad. The average income tax rate is 86.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Burci economy, worth 580 trillion casahbs a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 138,545 casahbs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard, birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire, the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, and Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Burcistan's national animal is the Barsinian Cattle and its national religion is Zatriskios.

Burcistan is ranked 15,240^th in the world and 11^th in Poschomenia for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 9,168.86 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.