The Blind Buffoons of Wakamaru is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Ushiwakamaru with an iron fist, and notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, prohibition of alcohol, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.827 billion Wakamaruans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Industry, although Administration is also considered important, while Education and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ushi City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Wakamaruan economy, worth 374 trillion Infants a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and dominated by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 132,298 Infants, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,200,590 per year while the poor average 1,693, a ratio of 708 to 1.

Nothing in life is promised except death and government support, there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day, ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter Wakamaruan pirates, and commuters regularly break the sound barrier -- and several bones. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Wakamaru's national animal is the Sunfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Wakamaruism.

Wakamaru is ranked 327,958^th in the world and 13^th in Icor for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 10.77 on the Kitten Softness Rating.