The Wonderful World of Bulbaland is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 30.786 billion Bulbalanders love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Social Policy, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Viridian City. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The enormous but sluggish Bulbalandic economy, worth a remarkable 1,270 trillion Pokémon Dollars a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,256 Pokémon Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, artists are pillars of society, Max Barry is this year's Miss Bulbaland, and the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bulbaland's national animal is the Bulbasaur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bulbaland is ranked 306,500^th in the world and 10^th in Pokemon World for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -20.54 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.