The People's Republic of Bananyo is a very large, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 457 million Bananyoans 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.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bananopolis. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Bananyoan economy, worth 26.9 trillion nanners a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,894 nanners, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People who get diabetes can sue donut manufacturers, artists are renowned for their ability to make art pieces out of thin air, all tariffs have been abolished, and tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash. Crime is totally unknown. Bananyo's national animal is the Insulindian Phasmid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bananyo is ranked 21,075^th in the world and 720^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 87 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.