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“We're not evil, just err... morally challenged.”

The Flaming Pirates of Bloodstone Kay is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Djohariah Illumina with an iron fist, and renowned for its suspicion of poets. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 8.793 billion 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.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt individuals is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Commerce are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlantis. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Information Technology.

Anti-environmentalist protesters are gunned down without mercy, hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in Bloodstone Kay's many privately-owned prisons, urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffer-driven limousines, and the military has had to quell a recent insurrection by uninsured revolutionaries. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Bloodstone Kay's national animal is the red nosed sasquatch, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Flying Spaghetti Monster, and its currency is the Kaydon dollar.

Bloodstone Kay is ranked 59th in the region and 55,057th in the world for Best Weather.