The Holy Buffian Empire of Buffavariastan is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by His Most Buffiness the Imperious Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, infamous sell-swords, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.185 billion Buffets 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fantoosh. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Buffian economy, worth a remarkable 1,384 trillion Bufflets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 135,926 Bufflets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, young people never forget their first roommate — no matter how much counselling they have, the central government is trying to keep things flowing, and fraternities are rejoicing at government-subsidized partying. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buffavariastan's national animal is the Hydra, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Buffyism.

Buffavariastan is ranked 318,614^th in the world and 17,216^th in Balder for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -10.04 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.