The Federal Republic of Bugong is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 464 million Tagbongs are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mayumi City. The average income tax rate is 52.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Tagbong economy, worth 33.0 trillion bugong pesos a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is 71,208 bugong pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

You're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery, and tipsy fans frequently invite themselves to the board meetings of sports clubs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bugong's national animal is the sea turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Bugong is ranked 278,577^th in the world and 4,869^th in The North Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.2 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.