The People's Republic of Bugashia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 792 million Bugashians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Bugashian economy, worth 10.7 trillion Red Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 13,448 Red Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bugashia's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bugashia is ranked 220,833^rd in the world and 3^rd in The Crimson League for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.