The Democratic States of Blight Light is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 1.223 billion Blight Lightians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 52.8%.

The all-consuming Blight Lightian economy, worth 101 trillion snails a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 82,911 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

It's rare to find an unchewed pencil, Blight Light successfully hosted the the Plains of Perdition Olympics, punitive tariffs protect local industry, and the politician's labor union forces stage names upon candidates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blight Light's national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Blight Light is ranked 71,288^th in the world and 286^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 134.87 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.