The Spoopy world of Butballs is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The elder brain with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, flagrant waste-dumping, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 26.373 billion Butballs enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, liberal, pro-business individuals is primarily concerned with Industry, although Spirituality, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hallwoeveille. Income tax is unheard of.

The all-consuming Butballish economy, worth a remarkable 3,727 trillion Candies a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 141,353 Candies, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 816,627 per year while the poor average 11,673, a ratio of 70.0 to 1.

Schools offer a range of lessons in subjects as diverse as The Economics of Bullying for Lunch Money, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", insomnia is slowly turning everyone insane, and The elder brain's new android secretary is the latest media darling. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Butballs's national animal is the Wienfigo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The grand deisgn.

Butballs is ranked 315,420^th in the world and 13,063^rd in Lazarus for Longest Average Lifespans, with 25.58 years.