The Same As It Ever Was of Charity Shop Bling is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Crazy Horse with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, rampant corporate plagiarism, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 34.324 billion Charity Shop Blingians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Environment, and Administration are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bling City. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Charity Shop Blingian economy, worth a remarkable 6,457 trillion blocs 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 188,121 blocs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One can wake up in Charity Shop Bling and have breakfast in Bigtopia, citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Bling City to enjoy their national art, and schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them. Crime is totally unknown. Charity Shop Bling's national animal is the Hummingbird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Faithless.

Charity Shop Bling is ranked 328,900^th in the world and 6^th in Genesis Defense Project for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -19.49 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.