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The Republic of Bannba is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 403 million Bans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of N'djamena. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.9%.

The powerhouse Ban economy, worth 34.2 trillion Ban dolloars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 84,933 Ban dolloars, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

Frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant, new treatments are rejected if they cannot be explained using only one-syllable words, rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes, and discarded pennies litter the streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bannba's national animal is the Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bannba is ranked 190,472^nd in the world and 313^th in Council of Asia for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 283.49 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.