The Confederacy of Isla Blovalian is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 528 million Bloves enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Amsterdam. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Blovalian economy, worth 56.9 trillion coconuts a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 107,800 coconuts, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 580,661 per year while the poor average 10,404, a ratio of 55.8 to 1.

The lives of former ski town residents are going downhill, the government's stance on marriage is 'Let Bloves marry themselves', murder comes with a cash prize if the victim was previously incarcerated, and people can get away with murder these days. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Isla Blovalian's national animal is the mutant beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Isla Blovalian is ranked 331,063^rd in the world and 893^rd in Council of Asia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 5.5 law-abiding acts per hour.