The People's Republic of Blappen is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Noah O'Donoghue with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.595 billion Blappenese are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dragclayfee. The average income tax rate is 79.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Blappenese economy, worth 157 trillion Blappenese Dollars 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 98,837 Blappenese Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, the nation turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in its quest for athletic supremacy, and lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blappen's national animal is the Derp, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular.

Blappen is ranked 24,599^th in the world and 76^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 7,540.78 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.