The Empire of Big Bison is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, avowedly heterosexual populace, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 327 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 Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of El Plata. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.1%.

The all-consuming Bison economy, worth 32.8 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 100,313 Wave Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 905,997 per year while the poor average 1,343, a ratio of 674 to 1.

Immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, Bison are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks, economists have been named Invertebrates of the Year, and the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups. 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 81,388^th in the world and 3^rd in Western Connection for Most Corrupt Governments, with 19.97 kickbacks per hour.