The Firefly Graveyard of Boneyard is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Scully McSkelton with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, deadly medical pandemics, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.001 billion Boneyardians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cytoskeleton. The average income tax rate is 4.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Boneyardian economy, worth a remarkable 1,486 trillion vertabraes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 165,143 vertabraes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Children are strong-armed by police into eating their greens, Boneyardian-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways, thieves claim they're simply working for the tax agency, and drowning sailors are hung out to dry. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Boneyard's national animal is the electric eel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is godless.

Boneyard is ranked 114,245^th in the world and 4^th in Last Flight for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 742.46 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.