The Community of Black Fly is a tiny, orderly nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, restrictive gun laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10 million Black Flies are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.0%.

The very strong Black Flyean economy, worth 808 billion US Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 80,813 US Dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 335,804 per year while the poor average 12,731, a ratio of 26.4 to 1.

Glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide, "Darwin's Disease" is a growing cause of death, parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children, and for just a few extra US Dollars Black Flies can get new driving records with their new cars. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Black Fly's national animal is the Fly, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Black Fly is ranked 201,494^th in the world and 7^th in Ideal for Largest Governments, scoring 9.7 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.