The Democratic Republic of New Blerspees is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service, fear of technology, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 16.429 billion New Blerspeesians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Blerspees Metropolis. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient New Blerspeesian economy, worth a remarkable 3,920 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 238,656 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,057,360 per year while the poor average 33,641, a ratio of 31.4 to 1.

Child shoplifters spend half their youth behind bars, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor, and parole board directors light up a joint before telling hash-brownie baking grannies that they have to stay behind bars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Blerspees's national animal is the giraffe, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

New Blerspees is ranked 289,725^th in the world and 11,289^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 3.24 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.