The United States of Bougian is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Joe bob with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 7.421 billion Bougianians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cosmicolon. The average income tax rate is 93.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Bougianian economy, worth a remarkable 2,385 trillion 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. 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 an amazing 321,399 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, the most common doctor's prescription is "get out of my consulting room", and small children pause apologies for their misdeeds to ask what fiscal insolvency actually is. Crime is totally unknown. Bougian's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Bougian is ranked 5,469^th in the world and 132^nd in the Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 155,991.75 Standard Monetary Units.