The Community of Bloomingdale is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.564 billion Bloomingdalers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Bloomingdalean economy, worth 39.0 trillion Labour Vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 24,937 Labour Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Unemployed mercenaries drift the country looking for new careers, Leader's personal home is one of The Leftist Assembly's most notorious party destinations, endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass, and the state conscripts sociopathic orphan girls to train as professional assassins. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bloomingdale's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bloomingdale is ranked 145,047^th in the world and 188^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,134.13 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.