The Republic of Test Bloon is a huge, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 845 million Test Bloonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.6%.

The very strong Test Bloonian economy, worth 54.8 trillion bitcoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 64,835 bitcoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 190,798 per year while the poor average 17,346, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Both vegetables and viruses are often smuggled across the border, hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in Test Bloon's many privately-owned prisons, the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet, and Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime is moderate. Test Bloon's national animal is the beaver, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Test Bloon is ranked 95,206^th in the world and 88^th in Taperegiona for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.5 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.