The Republic of Buteray is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Eduardo Mendoza with an even hand, and notable for its lack of airports, avant-garde cinema, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 19.981 billion Buterayans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rapua. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Buterayan economy, worth a remarkable 1,378 trillion Yeels a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,972 Yeels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms, vaccinations are mandatory, people are turning themselves into worm food, and Scrabble champions have been left scrambling for scraps. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buteray's national animal is the Scarlet Ayew, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Buteray is ranked 83,371^st in the world and 9^th in The Great Storm for Most Developed, scoring 66.35 on the Human Development Index.