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The Blorpish Republic of Blorpshire is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Blorpenheimer with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 4.157 billion Shirecats enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ball. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Blorpshirean economy, worth 820 trillion Toebeans a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 197,337 Toebeans, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 652,482 per year while the poor average 44,616, a ratio of 14.6 to 1.

Stocks go up when the internet says so, health insurance executives die young due to their claims being denied by their own companies, entomologists flock to Ball for its remarkable gadfly population, and Brancaland has gifted over nine thousand putrid moose carcasses to Blorpshire as a reminder of their "special relationship". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blorpshire's national animal is the Blorposaurus Rex, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Blorpism.

Blorpshire is ranked 46,668^th in the world and 16^th in Antarctica for Most Developed, scoring 78.11 on the Human Development Index.