The People's Republic of Blauwskjold is a huge, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Élodie Valentin with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 922 million Blauwskjoldingar 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yr. The average income tax rate is 82.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Blauwskjolding economy, worth 81.5 trillion krœns a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,343 krœns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prime Minister Élodie Valentin's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners, father-son fishing trips have been banned, all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers, and it's a comma comma comma comma comma rebellion. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blauwskjold's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Blauwskjold is ranked 254,099^th in the world and 229^th in Refugia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 15,195.11 Standard Monetary Units.