The Empire of Big Bison is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, vat-grown people, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 310 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 Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of El Plata. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.2%.

The powerhouse Bison economy, worth 31.1 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 100,321 Wave Dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 550,010 per year while the poor average 9,320, a ratio of 59.0 to 1.

Children are sent to either religious or secular schools, new funding allows inner city teachers to replace school laptops almost as fast as they get stolen, school cafeterias serve nothing but protein powder and vitamin supplements, and quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces. 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 278,093^rd in the world and 3^rd in Western Connection for Most Beautiful Environments, with 6.48 pounds of wildlife per square mile.