The Federal Republic of New Buckner is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by People's Champion Heite with an even hand, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, compulsory gun ownership, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 24.99 billion New Bucknerians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Buckner City. The average income tax rate is 84.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Bucknerian economy, worth a remarkable 3,305 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 132,273 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most ambassadors from New Buckner retire only a few years after being appointed, garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, the recital of citations that follows any political speech can be longer than the speech itself, and the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Buckner's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is New Catholism.

New Buckner is ranked 304,865^th in the world and 12,882^nd in Osiris for Most Primitive, scoring -376.31 on the Scary Big Number Scale.