The Best Nation of Bonkbonk is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by God-Emperor Sklue Goefoe Fingledang with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, pith helmet sales, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.948 billion bonkbonkians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Administration, Industry, and Education also on the agenda, while International Aid is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phlembelch. The average income tax rate is 82.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient bonkbonkian economy, worth a remarkable 1,819 trillion schnuckles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 203,300 schnuckles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens, mouldy bread is served as an appetizer in many restaurants, colonies are told they'll get their sovereignty back when they finish supper, and people forget to eat because they are too busy singing God-Emperor Sklue Goefoe Fingledang's praises. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bonkbonk's national animal is the great bonkbonkian explosive worm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Skluethleck.

Bonkbonk is ranked 326,866^th in the world and 243^rd in The League for Nicest Citizens, with 0.27 average smiles per day.