The United Socialist States of Bonum Locum is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Prime Unicorn with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 18.685 billion citizens 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, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Twinkletopia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Bonum Locumian economy, worth a remarkable 4,027 trillion sparkles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 215,542 sparkles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The media seems excessively interested in what the Prime Unicorn is wearing this season, nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, and one can wake up in Bonum Locum and have breakfast in Bigtopia. Crime is totally unknown. Bonum Locum's national animal is the attack helicopter, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bonum Locum is ranked 290,669^th in the world and 175^th in Valley of Peace for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -36.52 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.