The Spontaneously Combusting of Big Bar Guy is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Drunkboi with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 3.354 billion Mistakes are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Whiskey City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.4%.

The all-consuming Beer keg economy, worth 315 trillion Beers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Gambling. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 94,214 Beers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 354,761 per year while the poor average 17,447, a ratio of 20.3 to 1.

Some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them, Drunkboi's new office has a propensity to catch on fire, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, and there's nothing quite like Beer keg nightlife. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Big Bar Guy's national animal is the Drunks, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Send Help.

Big Bar Guy is ranked 73,459^th in the world and 24^th in The Bar on the corner of every region for Most Developed, scoring 69.37 on the Human Development Index.