The Democratically Republican of Bla Frea is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Peparan Viisitero with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 9.435 billion Bla Freans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poplannin. The average income tax rate is 77.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Bla Frean economy, worth a remarkable 1,525 trillion Blagosis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 161,687 Blagosis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Exported livestock are wined and dined before they are flat ironed, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, university admissions staff are blindfolded to prevent accidental bias, and construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bla Frea's national animal is the Bokonomi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gassi.

Bla Frea is ranked 313,233^rd in the world and 518^th in The Funian Puppet Region for Nicest Citizens, with 0.6 average smiles per day.