The Republic of Do NOT Use The Popcorn Button is a huge, safe nation, notable for its suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 915 million Do NOT Use The Popcorn Buttonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 33.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Do NOT Use The Popcorn Buttonian economy, worth 34.2 trillion francs a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,353 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Leader spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, the government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption, virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, and more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Do NOT Use The Popcorn Button's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Do NOT Use The Popcorn Button is ranked 103,472^nd in the world and 2^nd in Its Time For The for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring zero on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.