The Matriarchy of Kisume the bucket youkai is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kisume the bucket youkai with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 16.691 billion Kisume the bucket youkaians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Well City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Kisume the bucket youkaian economy, worth a remarkable 4,762 trillion Ceks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 285,330 Ceks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kisume the bucket youkai is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, and the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service. Crime is totally unknown. Kisume the bucket youkai's national animal is the Youkai, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is following Kisume.

Kisume the bucket youkai is ranked 229,720^th in the world and 280^th in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 714.42 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.