The Undignified Melodrama of The Bone of Contention is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, humorless, devout population of 28.219 billion Bone of Contentionians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Bone of Contentionian economy, worth a remarkable 2,535 trillion sawdusts a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 89,851 sawdusts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm, criminals are thrown to the skeletal horses to repay their debt to society, any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, and students athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned skeletal horseball fields. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Bone of Contention's national animal is the skeletal horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Parapsychobabblity.

The Bone of Contention is ranked 1,121^st in the world and 1^st in The Skeleton Army for Lowest Crime Rates, with 166.9 law-abiding acts per hour.