The Republic of Bud Lightyear is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Anheuser Busch with an even hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, compulsory military service, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 3.987 billion Bud Lightyearians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pixar. The average income tax rate is 31.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Bud Lightyearian economy, worth 402 trillion Bottlecaps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Tourism. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 100,887 Bottlecaps, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

Travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Bud Lightyear flights to avoid the pay lavatories, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, and the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Bud Lightyear's national animal is the Drunken Tourist, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Vedulism.

Bud Lightyear is ranked 42,713^th in the world and 1^st in Xeno Metahive for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 168.65 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.