The Colony of Buttstuff is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.232 billion Buttstuffians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Buttstuff City. The average income tax rate is 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Buttstuffian economy, worth 24.9 trillion viruses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is 20,250 viruses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Spies caught red-handed are served cocktails on their first-class flights home, it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, the dwindling faithful in the nation make expensive pilgrimages to the remaining places of worship, and family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buttstuff's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Buttstuff is ranked 72,394^th in the world and 82^nd in Aesica for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,409.72 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.