The Carnival of Blotting is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Godmother with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 15.99 billion Blotts live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Administration, Education, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Masque of the Red Death. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Blottish economy, worth a remarkable 2,818 trillion dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 176,238 dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 929,839 per year while the poor average 17,770, a ratio of 52.3 to 1.

An exhibition on seagull memes is currently starring at the National Art Gallery, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, politicians tend to jump ship to whichever party is currently leading in the polls, and Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Blotting's national animal is the seagull, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Blotting is ranked 17,655^th in the world and 201^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,512.88 on the Gilded Widget Scale.