The Bongian Islamic States of United Bongo States of the New America is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Ahmed Rise Abdullah Yahya Majalat with a fair hand, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, fear of technology, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.276 billion Bongians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coconut the Monkey City. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Bongian economy, worth 436 trillion Bongian Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Tourism industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 133,241 Bongian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, and small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Bongo States of the New America's national animal is the Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

United Bongo States of the New America is ranked 315,355^th in the world and 227^th in The Bongos United for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -17.49 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.