The Joyous Confederation of Wat Blum is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by the Superregional Congress with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, aversion to nipples, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.63 billion Waters are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urbis Congressus. The average income tax rate is 98.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Blumie economy, worth a remarkable 1,884 trillion blumes 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 Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 195,737 blumes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sleeping on the job is recommended, politicians tend to speak more loudly and slowly these days, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, and there's an aura of pseudoscience around academia. Crime is totally unknown. Wat Blum's national animal is the warbler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wat Blum is ranked 187,255^th in the world and 6,431^st in Osiris for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -4.24 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.