The Holy Empire of BOBBYVILLE is a small, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 32 million BOBBYVILLEians 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 tiny government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 8.0%.

The very strong BOBBYVILLEian economy, worth 2.22 trillion EMERALDS a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is 69,466 EMERALDS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names, getting an autograph has become harder than ever, judicial torture is outsourced overseas, and pop sensation "Jack and the Holograms" is storming the charts. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. BOBBYVILLE's national animal is the VILLAGER, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

BOBBYVILLE is ranked 108,729^th in the world and 451^st in Europeia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,650.1 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.