The Democratic Republic of Buckie is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 9.463 billion Buckieans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Buckiean economy, worth a remarkable 1,628 trillion Bucks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 172,077 Bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis, finders keepers is the law of the land, and nefarious Blackacrean surveillance has been replaced with patriotic Buckiean surveillance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buckie's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Buckie is ranked 31,362^nd in the world and 1^st in The United Federation of Planets for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 245.12 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.