The Emirate of Blehefque is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 74 million Blehefqueans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Blehefquean economy, worth 2.56 trillion pieces 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 dominated by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 34,658 pieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium, and urban planners beg for just one more lane before bedtime. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blehefque's national animal is the panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Blehefque is ranked 168,477^th in the world and 830^th in Europeia for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 505.62 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.