The Hanging Chad of Butterfly Ballot is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 40.365 billion Butterfly Ballotians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it prioritizes Healthcare, although Education, Environment, and Law & Order are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 82.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Butterfly Ballotian economy, worth a remarkable 2,099 trillion moonstones a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 52,018 moonstones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is compulsory and citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Butterfly Ballot's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Butterfly Ballot is ranked 21,807^th in the world and 3^rd in Florida for Safest, scoring 112.85 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.