The Democratic Republic of Buckie is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its state-planned economy, lack of airports, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.481 billion Buckieans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Buckiean economy, worth 665 trillion Bucks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 148,550 Bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Even secular Buckieans are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!", elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, online weather reports are predicting five years of glorious sunshine for Buckie, and hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buckie's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Buckie is ranked 283,077^th in the world and 1,346^th in Europe for Most Patriotic, with 0.43 flags saluted per person per day.