State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. Bacon-enthusiasts, Governor Branstad, a bacon queen, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, members of PETA, and an envoy of Icelanders are not excluded from this bacon party and during the course of the film become intertwined with the organizers of the festival to show that bacon diplomacy is not dead.

David Anthony Higgins
as Bacon Dreamer

Jim Duggan
as Self

Terry Branstad
as Self

Chuck Grassley
as Self

Anderson Cooper
as Self

Bjorn Ofeigsson
as Self

Kevin Metzger
as Butcher

Randy Goodwin
as Butcher

P. Brooks Reynolds
as Self

Marshall Porter
as Self