The People's Republic of Bunkara is a tiny, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 18 million Bunkarans 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fair Bunkaran economy, worth 504 billion Bunkaran rubles 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 Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 27,987 Bunkaran rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued, commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains, rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, and suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bunkara's national animal is the Woolly mammoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Bunkara is ranked 288,854^th in the world and 908^th in The Frontier Sea for Rudest Citizens, with 13.43 insults per minute.