The Beautiful New Day of Blue Skye is a mammoth, pleasant nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-working population of 7.122 billion Blue Skyeans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 22.4%.

The strong Blue Skyean economy, worth 303 trillion Groats a year, is quite specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 42,602 Groats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment, surveillance cameras are banned, and seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma. Crime is moderate. Blue Skye's national animal is the Bagpipe, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Blue Skye is ranked 234,323^rd in the world and 5^th in New Year for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -3.13 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.