The Incorporated States of Buthisa is a tiny, safe nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 8 million Buthisans 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 Welfare, Spirituality, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 62.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Buthisan economy, worth 158 billion guilders a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Tourism, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 19,780 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Genetic researchers have been expelled, the tenet of free speech is held dear, military spending recently hit a new high, and hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buthisa's national animal is the dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Buthisa is ranked 62,334^th in the world and 203^rd in Starlight for Most Cultured, scoring 70 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.