Our Dumb World is a parody of the standard desk atlas created by the staff of The Onion and published by Little, Brown and Company on 30 October 2007.

The book, written in the satirical paper's editorial voice, contains entries for nearly every country on Earth, including detailed maps, feature articles, and humorous stereotyped descriptions of regional history and customs.

Included in the Extra section are the Northern and Southern Poles and Greenland, which is "larger than Africa and South America combined."

[1] The book uses faux xenophobia to illustrate the cultural differences of various nations, often mocking racial stereotypes with satirical comments.

Elements of the book have been transferred to an electronic format available on the paper's website and as a layer on Google Earth.

The book starts off with an introduction written by T. Herman Zweibel, talking about his dislike of foreign countries, and his travels during his youth to various places around the world.

Opposite this introduction is a picture described as the earliest copy of Our Dumb World, supposedly from the year 1621.

This contradicts Our Dumb Century, where T. Herman Zweibel claims that The Onion was founded in 1743, but he also remembers other parts of history inaccurately (such as believing that America gained independence from the Tartars), so the map entry may be more accurate.

Next is a double-page spread about how to use the atlas, with jokes about how it should be treated in other countries, a note to Barnes and Noble browsers, and some charts and keys.

This series of pages starts with a joke about the American Dream and inequality, as well as showing statistics about the country, as well as a ridiculous map with an unhelpful key.

Information of the map includes a rhubarb forest in Minnesota, a stuffed animal militia in Montana, and Disney suing a girl in Florida for wearing a Goofy shirt that she had just bought from them.

We then see a long history from the Native Americans '[wasting] several millennia' naming various geographical features, to George Washington starting a tradition of politicians lying (he supposedly claimed he was incapable of this), to millions driving to Washington DC to protest global warming.

The atlas then covers the Northeast, regarded as the only place that could be inhabited by the Pilgrims, and being incredibly smug about being the first part of the country to have gained independence.

Idaho is most famous for its iron ore, rather than potatoes, which is used in a number of things, and tastes delicious when covered in butter and sour cream.

The atlas first shows us Canada, which it openly criticises for various things that would usually be seen in a positive light, such as its universal healthcare, its efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and its refusal to teach creationism in schools.

We then see Mexico, which the book claims is suffering from a 'brawn drain' due to unskilled people moving to America, forcing the skilled people into manual labour, as well as information about its inhabitants, including the racial origins of its Mestizo population, and an apparent reason for why they eat chilli peppers.

The people of El Salvador are apparently constantly praying to Jesus to fix their country, whilst churning out statues of the Madonna.

Cuba is shown to be incredibly impoverished as a result of the Fidel Castro regime, which has made its people so resourceful that the book suggests the Cubans could use stuff from US tag sales to cure cancer and perfect cold fusion in 3 years.

Next we see a section about the 'Who Cares Islands', with Antigua and Barbuda being centred around weddings, Trinidad and Tobago around limbo, and Grenada around nutmeg.

Then come the 'Seriously Who Cares Islands', with Dominica being ignored as it lacks beaches and Barbados being a massive tax haven described using language traditionally applied to pirates.

The atlas then moves onto the next section, about South America, opening with Brazil, which contrasts the physical beauty of its inhabitants with the abysmal state of the country, as well as a few other jokes such as the 'official religion' of Brazil being association football, and there actually being distinct strata of poor people, the lowest being so desperate they are willing to eat glass.

The book portrays Argentina as a 'Nazi retirement community' in reference to the large number of Nazis who escaped to that country after WW2.

the log for Venezuela is about how it is anti-American and how its then-leader, Hugo Chavez, is incredibly critical of the West due to the Venezuelan oil and is a brutal dictator.

Madagascar is ruled by its lemurs, whilst Mauritius is considered the only good part of Africa, and nobody knows anything about Seychelles and Comoros is riddled with perfume.

Israel is constantly under fire as few recognise the authority of the United Nations or God, whilst the people of Palestine are completely imprisoned.

The article on Italy is incredibly condescending about that country, whilst claiming that Italians are equally intolerant.

India's log talks about how many of its inhabitants work in computer service helplines at the cost of the country.

Taiwan is described in such a manner as to resemble a cheap plastic toy (such things were often made there at the time).

Illegal workers from the Philippines supposedly make a trek between home and their place of work every day.

Critical reaction to Our Dumb World has been generally positive with reviewers praising the humor and use of satire.