The Principality of Principado Blake is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Reina Be Blake with a fair hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.449 billion Blakenses 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 Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Violet House. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Principado Blakean economy, worth a remarkable 1,226 trillion Australs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 164,619 Australs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

When you fly on Air Principado Blake you win a seat or you die, it's customary to greet the monarch with fist bumps, paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black, and the nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Principado Blake's national animal is the Perricornio, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is NeoCredentism.

Principado Blake is ranked 7,965^th in the world and 10^th in Talonia for Most Cultured, scoring 126 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.