The Democratic States of Budopu is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 564 million Budopuans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anchor City. The average income tax rate is 34.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Budopuan economy, worth 37.7 trillion rupees a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 66,881 rupees, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy", city-slickers are jelly of all the farmland the government is giving away, card players are calling the government's bluff on anti-gambling legislation, and mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Budopu's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Budopu is ranked 83,657^th in the world and 986^th in the South Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,178.71 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.