The Republic of Do NOT Use The Popcorn Button is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 848 million Do NOT Use The Popcorn Buttonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 32.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Do NOT Use The Popcorn Buttonian economy, worth 31.3 trillion francs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,858 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Both criminals and civilians are DOA, real estate agencies are being replaced by naval recruitment offices, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and emergency vehicles have built-in nudge bars to give uncooperative drivers a "gentle" push. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Do NOT Use The Popcorn Button's national animal is the fox.

Do NOT Use The Popcorn Button is ranked 239,181^st in the world and 7^th in Its Time For The for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -2.97 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.