The Colony of Bingo is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its closed borders, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.532 billion Bingoans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, although Healthcare, Industry, and Law & Order are also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 61.1%.

The powerhouse Bingoan economy, worth 99.5 trillion Oranges a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Soda Sales, Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 64,974 Oranges, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

The nation is wading into dangerous waters, the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, corrective labour camps either end political dissent or kill the dissenters, and prison visits increase substantially during election years. Crime is a major problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Bingo's national animal is the Eastern box turtle , which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Bingo is ranked 62,608^th in the world and 2^nd in Bingos Puppet Sanctuary for Most Extreme, scoring 28.85 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.