The Snarky Solar Observer of Bhang Bhang Duc is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Salvor Hardin with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 39.548 billion Lovecraftians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Administration, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Four Ecks. The average income tax rate is 98.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Bhang Bhang Ducian economy, worth a remarkable 6,976 trillion Zevons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 176,408 Zevons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The hip spot of the season is just over that way, a paperwork error has naval privateers being directed to attack land-locked nations, law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students, and sometimes a whole prison wing will house a single prisoner. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bhang Bhang Duc's national animal is the Slark, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Drinking Brains SA.

Bhang Bhang Duc is ranked 4,260^th in the world and 65^th in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 120.54 law-abiding acts per hour.