The Republic of Buluma is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Praeses with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.74 billion Bulumen 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 63.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Buluman economy, worth 130 trillion deniers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,181 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Balaclava manufacturers are held criminally culpable for bank heists, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Buluma's radio stations, administrative districts are increasingly defined by their taste in housing architecture, and tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buluma's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Buluma is ranked 53,647^th in the world and 1,651^st in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.