The United Socialist States of BluBert is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enforced nudity, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 292 million BluBertians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped BluBertian economy, worth 10.0 trillion Blus 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 34,391 Blus, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is full of esquivalience, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", illegal immigration remains a hot topic, and songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BluBert's national animal is the Cheese, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

BluBert is ranked 114,787^th in the world and 5,437^th in Osiris for Highest Poor Incomes, with 27,575.76 Standard Monetary Units.