The Emirate of Blehefque is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 107 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 Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Blehefquean economy, worth 4.20 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, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 39,257 pieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors, adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, and twelfth-generation Blehefqueans are deported for not knowing Leader's childhood nickname. 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 17,858^th in the world and 203^rd in Europeia for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 55.77 on the Kitten Softness Rating.