Babin - a seemingly ordinary village located on the Bełżyce Plain, became a real sensation in the XVI century. In literature and history it is known as the "Babin Republic". It was a kind of an association or a literary-political-theological-and-social club founded by Calvinist nobles, aiming in a humorous, parodying, sometimes ironic way to reform in the State and the Church. Prominent members were joining the "Republic" which publicly mocked the arrogance, pride and intolerance of the nobility. The members of the, so-called "upside-down country" were even famous writers, Mikołaj Rej and Jan Kochanowski.