The Republic of Buyers United is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.737 billion Buyers Unitedians 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 tiny, corrupt, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, with Environment and Education not funded at all. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Buyers Unitedian economy, worth a remarkable 2,663 trillion currencies a year, is broadly diversified and mostly made up of the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 344,294 currencies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,129,083 per year while the poor average 78,793, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

Cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year, people are turning themselves into worm food, and nobility is the world's oldest profession. Crime is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Buyers United's national animal is the animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Buyers United is ranked 315,011^th in the world and 9^th in Vickenian experiment containment zone for Most Patriotic, with 0.27 flags saluted per person per day.