The Dominion of The Great Bud is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by High Priest with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 44.289 billion Great Budians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, with Healthcare, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Public Transport are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Great Bud City. The average income tax rate is 3.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Great Budian economy, worth a remarkable 2,466 trillion Ganjs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Book Publishing. 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 55,687 Ganjs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Internet trolls are considered valiant supporters of the right to free speech, vultures have more rights than the average citizen, bicyclists are banned from major roads, and children have nightmares about the eerie red glow and constant whirring of newly-installed machines. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Great Bud's national animal is the vulture, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Budism.

The Great Bud is ranked 1,268^th in the world and 1^st in marijuana land for Most Beautiful Environments, with 4,632.27 pounds of wildlife per square mile.