The Grand Duchy of Buchbach is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Grand Duke Clemems Buchbach with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The devout population of 2.727 billion Buchishes have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kersten. The average income tax rate is 56.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Buchbachian economy, worth 117 trillion Blanches a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,937 Blanches, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls, and major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buchbach's national animal is the Bever, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lutheran Church.

Buchbach is ranked 128,132^nd in the world and 60^th in Lands End for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 867.57 on the Societal Mobility Rating.