The Democratic Republic of Blobovnia is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 212 million Blobovnians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Blobovnian economy, worth 12.3 trillion Blobovnian Lirs a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 58,064 Blobovnian Lirs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on, the arms industry is strictly regulated, and artists are pillars of society. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blobovnia's national animal is the wolverine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Blobovnia is ranked 69,302^nd in the world and 48^th in The Dominion of Order for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 46.3 on the Kitten Softness Rating.