The Commonwealth of Buttcrackia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 666 million Buttcrackians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Das HappyFunLand. The average income tax rate is 81.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Buttcrackian economy, worth 54.1 trillion thongs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. Average income is 81,204 thongs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Das HappyFunLand Natural History Museum, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, and burglars are known for taking cash, socks, and other valuables. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buttcrackia's national animal is the Wolf Spider, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Buttcrackia is ranked 311,134^th in the world and 501^st in Edoca for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 22.05 on the Bus Surprisal Index.