The StrexCorp desert town of Tempest Bluffs is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Kevin F Price with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 2.904 billion Bluffians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Environment, and Law & Order are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fresh Lake City. The average income tax rate is 43.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Blufficratic economy, worth 202 trillion sands a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 69,836 sands, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls, and island residents must resort to canoes and sailboats to get to work. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tempest Bluffs's national animal is the Strexpet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Smiling God Miles.

Tempest Bluffs is ranked 31,154^th in the world and 29^th in Caer Sidi for Most Beautiful Environments, with 852.04 pounds of wildlife per square mile.