The Colony of Buttstuff is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, parental licensing program, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.34 billion Buttstuffians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Buttstuff City. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Buttstuffian economy, worth 41.9 trillion viruses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 31,273 viruses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of viruses are spent to take high-quality photos of the Cat Nebula, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, the most common doctor's prescription is "get out of my consulting room", and tourists are forbidden to enter Native Buttstuffian lands. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buttstuff's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Buttstuff is ranked 154,727^th in the world and 189^th in Aesica for Most Developed, scoring 55.64 on the Human Development Index.