The Delicious Republic of Buttery Biscuits is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Councilor Flaky with a fair hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 5.576 billion Buttery Biscuitsians 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 large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gravy Boat. The average income tax rate is 44.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Buttery Biscuitsian economy, worth 175 trillion lards a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 31,448 lards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations, edutainment video games are taking Buttery Biscuits's students to the next level, and the blind lead the blind in social welfare. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buttery Biscuits's national animal is the bobcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Baking.

Buttery Biscuits is ranked 44,732^nd in the world and 7^th in T2R for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.