The Day the Music Died of Buddy Holly is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Charles Hardin Holley with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 26.205 billion Buddy Hollyians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lubbock. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Buddy Hollyian economy, worth a remarkable 5,691 trillion Gold Records a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 217,175 Gold Records, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 866,544 per year while the poor average 36,616, a ratio of 23.7 to 1.

Copyright laws have been abolished, handling people's data is proving an immersive experience, the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix, and students are explicitly allowed to write answers on their forearms before exams. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Buddy Holly's national animal is the Cricket, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Agnostic Pantheism.

Buddy Holly is ranked 292,765^th in the world and 767^th in NationStates for Lowest Crime Rates, with 5.02 law-abiding acts per hour.