The Bongian Islamic States of United Bongo States of the New America is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ahmed Rise Abdullah Yahya Majalat with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, fear of technology, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.309 billion Bongians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coconut the Monkey City. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Bongian economy, worth 441 trillion Bongian Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Tourism industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 133,398 Bongian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents dread their examinations more than their children, endangered species face obesity instead of extinction, five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred revivals is how theatre-goers measure a year, and posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Bongo States of the New America's national animal is the Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

United Bongo States of the New America is ranked 283,166^th in the world and 183^rd in The Bongos United for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -6.9 on the Hickory Productivity Index.