The Balkan Paradise of Bumblegaria is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Queen Bee with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 6.43 billion Bumblegarians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bumdon. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Bumblegarian economy, worth 844 trillion Staffinkies a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 131,336 Staffinkies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub, the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, and Bumblegarians are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bumblegaria's national animal is the Bumblebee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is unimportant.

Bumblegaria is ranked 7,255^th in the world and 218^th in the South Pacific for Smartest Citizens, with 107.89 quips per hour.