The Emirate of Blehefque is a large, genial nation, remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 172 million Blehefqueans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Blehefquean economy, worth 7.60 trillion pieces a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 44,174 pieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Saying "don't do anything that Leader wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, Leader's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve, and a byzantine web of conspiracies and secret alliances must be navigated any time legislation is voted upon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blehefque's national animal is the panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Blehefque is ranked 148,019^th in the world and 780^th in Europeia for Most Developed, scoring 56.19 on the Human Development Index.