The Colony of Butterlandon is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Saltless with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, otherworldly petting zoo, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.463 billion Butterlandonians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Butter City. The average income tax rate is 7.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Butterlandonian economy, worth 955 trillion Utter butters a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 214,107 Utter butters, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, road rage is rarer but more terminal now that many people drive fully-operational battle tanks to work, and foreign workers are flooding in as Utter butters flood out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Butterlandon's national animal is the Butterling, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Butterlandon is ranked 7,362^nd in the world and 160^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 15,376.43 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.