The Republic of Butterfingers is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its hatred of cheese, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 512 million Butterfingersians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 48.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Butterfingersian economy, worth 6.87 trillion Whoops a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 13,424 Whoops, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption, meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions, and religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Butterfingers's national animal is the Octopus.

Butterfingers is ranked 207,833^rd in the world and 5,563^rd in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 5.99 flags saluted per person per day.