The Confederated Tribes of Bongo-LaBomba is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Princesa Beaubo Mazzu with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.631 billion Bongo-LaBombans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Oppression. The average income tax rate is 89.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bongo-LaBomban economy, worth a remarkable 3,290 trillion Quobadizi Doubloons a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 139,258 Quobadizi Doubloons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

When you fly on Air Bongo-LaBomba you win a seat or you die, the most sacred right is the right to ignore the rights of slaves, the dictionary is a common first book for children, and Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in Bongo-LaBomba. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bongo-LaBomba's national animal is the Oyster, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Nunism.

Bongo-LaBomba is ranked 3,980^th in the world and 6^th in The Unrecoverables for Largest Black Market, with 2,436 trillion Standard Monetary Units.