The Democratic Republic of Buckie is a mammoth, efficient nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, infamous sell-swords, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 9.537 billion Buckieans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Buckiean economy, worth a remarkable 1,642 trillion Bucks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 172,221 Bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns, the opposition leader's credibility has been undermined by constant attention drawn to a dodgy toupee, newspaper stories fill several pages with colorful adjectives, and scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buckie's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Buckie is ranked 3,528^th in the world and 1^st in The United Federation of Planets for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 20,992.81 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.