The Most Serene Republic of Blandings and Fenwick is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by His Supremely Eirenic Eminence with a fair hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, smutty television, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 20.939 billion Blandings and Fenwickians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The minute, liberal, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Education, with Spirituality also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ickenham. The average income tax rate is 1.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Blandings and Fenwickian economy, worth a remarkable 2,383 trillion francs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 113,852 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps, childhood friends of His Supremely Eirenic Eminence are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, 75% of the words in government-funded "Super Fun Maths Games" are probably inaccurate, and interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CBBAF Governor goes house hunting. Crime is totally unknown. Blandings and Fenwick's national animal is the green monster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Blandings and Fenwick is ranked 15,375^th in the world and 52^nd in Texas for Largest Populations, with 20.9 billion capita.