The Animals' Republic of King Bongo the Second is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Bongo the Second with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 7.042 billion Primates are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — prioritizes Education, with Environment, Administration, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Defense receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of State of Coconut City. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Primate economy, worth a remarkable 1,061 trillion bananas 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 150,727 bananas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene, the well-to-do in The Bongos United are never on time for important appointments, atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum, and rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. King Bongo the Second's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

King Bongo the Second is ranked 5,416^th in the world and 2^nd in The Bongos United for Most Cultured, scoring 152 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.