The Federal Socialist Republic of Buyo is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Ilyiparise Alborz with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and public floggings. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.735 billion Buyonese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gemun. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Buyonese economy, worth 208 trillion yuan a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 120,312 yuan, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens, children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, and 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buyo's national animal is the crane, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Buyo is ranked 282,833^rd in the world and 298^th in Conch Kingdom for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.62 kickbacks per hour.