The Best Nation of Bonkbonk is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by God-Emperor Sklue Goefoe Fingledang with an iron fist, and notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, compulsory military service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.875 billion bonkbonkians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Administration, Industry, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phlembelch. The average income tax rate is 82.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient bonkbonkian economy, worth a remarkable 1,763 trillion schnuckles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 198,701 schnuckles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Children and steel are ubiquitous features of the nethermost depths of Bonkbonk, women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up", absentminded citizens frequently converse with hallucinations, and the military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bonkbonk's national animal is the great bonkbonkian explosive worm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Skluethleck.

Bonkbonk is ranked 91,408^th in the world and 69^th in The League for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,295.62 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.