The Empire of Big Bison is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 334 million Bison are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Defense, with Administration, Industry, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of El Plata. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.0%.

The all-consuming Bison economy, worth 33.6 trillion Wave Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 100,537 Wave Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 908,012 per year while the poor average 1,346, a ratio of 674 to 1.

The government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, immigrant herding has become a national pastime, bar brawls are an hourly occurrence, and the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Big Bison's national animal is the Bison, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Big Bison is ranked 263,303^rd in the world and 4^th in Western Connection for Highest Food Quality, scoring 7.1 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.