The Colony of Um Bongo is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles and compulsory military service. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 853 million Um Bongans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Libby. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.1%.

The very strong Um Bongolese economy, worth 64.9 trillion juices a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Gambling, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 76,050 juices, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.

Lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Um Bongo's new capital, military chiefs are predicting extra funding in this year's budget, and minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Um Bongo's national animal is the hippopotamus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Um Bongo is ranked 46,083^rd in the world and 6^th in Lewisham for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.