The Colony of Bingo is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.538 billion Bingoans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Administration, although Healthcare, Law & Order, and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare are ignored. The average income tax rate is 65.7%.

The powerhouse Bingoan economy, worth 99.9 trillion Oranges a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Soda Sales, Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 64,925 Oranges, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The term "Native Bingoan" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority, the most popular household pet in Bingo is the domestic minor, coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk, and unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount Bingo City make great practice for foreign snipers. Crime is a major problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Bingo's national animal is the Eastern box turtle , which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Bingo is ranked 735^th in the world and 1^st in Bingos Puppet Sanctuary for Most Primitive, scoring 287.51 on the Scary Big Number Scale.