The Queen's State of Blakeburn is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 40.394 billion Blakeburnians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 55.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Blakeburnian economy, worth a remarkable 1,158 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 28,681 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory minature radios, streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, and none has been named as Blakeburn's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blakeburn's national animal is the deer and its national religion is none.

Blakeburn is ranked 137,576^th in the world and 1^st in Blakeburn for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,312.38 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.