The Emirate of Blehefque is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its triple-decker prams, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 10 million Blehefqueans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Blehefquean economy, worth 181 billion pieces a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 18,123 pieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, foreign leaders are advising that Leader's letters must have gotten lost in the mail, and school uniforms are compulsory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blehefque's national animal is the panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Blehefque is ranked 241,151^st in the world and 1,186^th in Europeia for Highest Poor Incomes, with 16,891.54 Standard Monetary Units.