The 41 Percent Tax Evasion Rate of The Blue Fire is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Meel with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.943 billion Fi'rei are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Morhal-Bismuth. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fi'rean economy, worth 346 trillion Flats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 117,884 Flats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum, GP clinics are inundated by patients requesting prescriptions for alcohol, cops in Morhal-Bismuth spend much of their time napping on a park bench next to Embassy Row, and political satirists and late night comedians weep as the government begins cleaning up its act. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Blue Fire's national animal is the Firefish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Blue Fire is ranked 39,084^th in the world and 100^th in Refugia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,758.5 on the Gilded Widget Scale.