The Buteo of Batholomew Buzzard is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Buzzard Boy with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 21.239 billion Buzzardians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Buteo. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Batholomew Buzzardian economy, worth a remarkable 5,048 trillion Tags a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 237,689 Tags, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, and the face of Buzzard Boy is a permanent feature of the Buteo skyline. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Batholomew Buzzard's national animal is the Red Kite, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Birding.

Batholomew Buzzard is ranked 7,533^rd in the world and 43^rd in the West Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 7,827.23 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.