The Democratic Republic of BonitoWasTaken is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its lack of airports, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.436 billion BonitoWasTakenians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fish Floss. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient BonitoWasTakenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,301 trillion tooth fairy rebateses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 239,345 tooth fairy rebateses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, the police are tightening their grip on alcohol smugglers, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, and torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BonitoWasTaken's national animal is the Bonito, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

BonitoWasTaken is ranked 634^th in the world and 1^st in Gildern for Lowest Crime Rates, with 185.58 law-abiding acts per hour.