The Federal Republic of Red Butte is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. The hard-working population of 28.936 billion Red Butteans 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.0%.

The very strong Red Buttean economy, worth 851 trillion stones a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 29,415 stones, with the richest citizens earning 6.5 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is compulsory. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Red Butte's national animal is the bison.

Red Butte is ranked 73,637^th in the world and 3^rd in Wyoming for Most Primitive, scoring 34.64 on the Scary Big Number Scale.