The Oppressed Peoples of Butope is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, cynical population of 18 million Butopeans are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 23.3%.

The strong Butopean economy, worth 968 billion baht a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Pizza Delivery, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 53,758 baht, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, surveillance cameras are banned, and viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Butope's national animal is the porpoise, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Butope is ranked 220,294^th in the world and 564^th in Horizon for Least Corrupt Governments, with 92.21 percentage of bribes refused.