The Hanging Chad of Butterfly Ballot is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 41.822 billion Butterfly Ballotians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 83.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Butterfly Ballotian economy, worth a remarkable 2,342 trillion moonstones a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 56,016 moonstones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is compulsory and citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Butterfly Ballot's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Butterfly Ballot is ranked 55,531^st in the world and 7^th in Florida for Largest Governments, scoring 21.45 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.