The Social Republic of Republic of La Boca is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Valentín Rodríguez with an even hand, and renowned for its fear of technology, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 16.762 billion Boquenses are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Quilmes. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Boquense economy, worth a remarkable 3,407 trillion Boquense peso convertibles a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 203,267 Boquense peso convertibles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour, gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages, houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, and the decommissioned tank divisions of other nations are being bought up en masse by Republic of La Boca. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Republic of La Boca's national animal is the Dachshund, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Republic of La Boca is ranked 290,378^th in the world and 16^th in Comunidad de Naciones Iberoamericanas for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -27.55 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.