The Badlands Beyond The Brink of The Bizarre is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ernest Mann with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 28.722 billion Bizarroes are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — prioritizes Education, with Environment, Healthcare, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Down Town. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The all-consuming Bizarrean economy, worth a remarkable 2,903 trillion Time Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an impressive 101,078 Time Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments, a policy of plausible deniability helps protect the government from athletic doping scandals, research grant proposals read like political diatribes, and terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, probably because of the absence of a police force. The Bizarre's national animal is the moose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Bizarrism.

The Bizarre is ranked 315,394^th in the world and 8^th in The Illuminati for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -24.7 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.