The Republic of The Blue Hope is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, daily referendums, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 287 million Blue Hopeans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 43.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Blue Hopean economy, worth 18.3 trillion Blue Hopean dollars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 63,621 Blue Hopean dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Getting milk from the local corner store no longer requires donning advanced hiking gear, doctors are trying to diagnose diseases by looking at their patients' Snipchat pictures, children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name, and the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Blue Hope's national animal is the blue panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Blue Hope is ranked 189,007^th in the world and 3,252^nd in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.