The Republic of Buevo is a very large, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-working, democratic population of 160 million Buevoans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 10.5%.

The Buevoan economy, worth 9.90 trillion Banh Mis a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 61,846 Banh Mis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

The old neighbourhood isn't how most Buevoans remember it, conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, and the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Buevo's national animal is the Dong Tran, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Buevo is ranked 161,214^th in the world and 456^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 466.7 on the Gilded Widget Scale.