The Free Land of Howdy Doody Time is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Phineas T Bluster with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 11.458 billion Howdy Doody Timeans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Peanut Gallery. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Howdy Doody Timean economy, worth a remarkable 1,242 trillion Doody Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 108,425 Doody Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 309,104 per year while the poor average 30,327, a ratio of 10.2 to 1.

Recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies, The Peanut Gallery's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight, Howdy Doody Time is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, and repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Howdy Doody Time's national animal is the Flub-a-Dub, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Doody Ranch.

Howdy Doody Time is ranked 230,090^th in the world and 8^th in The Great Universe for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -7 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.