The Fast Food Restaurant of Le Chum Bucket is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Squidward Tentacles with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 10.53 billion Chum buckets love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bikini Bottom. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Le Bucketsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,772 trillion $ Sand Dollars 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 Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 168,299 $ Sand Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to Squidward Tentacles's wardrobe, and the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Le Chum Bucket's national animal is the Fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Chum Fricassee.

Le Chum Bucket is ranked 310,034^th in the world and 12^th in Indonesia Nusantara for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -23.65 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.