The Democratic Republic of Gobunga is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.565 billion Gobungans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flailinginflatabletubeman Town. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gobungan economy, worth 495 trillion Scrims a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 138,910 Scrims, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, the nation forgives those who are big enough to admit they made a mistake, the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers, and the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gobunga's national animal is the Little Black Shag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pastafarianism.

Gobunga is ranked 253,485^th in the world and 5^th in Alliance of Pkardia for Most Patriotic, with 1.67 flags saluted per person per day.