The Sultanate of Blitheness is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.888 billion Blithenessians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 7.7%.

The very strong Blithenessian economy, worth 355 trillion blithes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 60,332 blithes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The government loves seeing the little people fight, coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, and the nation's air force consists of strongly-worded letters folded into paper airplanes. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Blitheness's national animal is the vacuum salesman, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Blitheness is ranked 238,254^th in the world and 1,948^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,032.74 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.