The Most Serene Republic of The BLS Coin Collectors Club is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by DG Wright with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 864 million BLSians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Hostel. The average income tax rate is 65.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The BLSian economy, worth 51.1 trillion Cartwheel Pennies 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 59,175 Cartwheel Pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The BLSian Intelligence Agency relies on internet search engines to know what is happening overseas, the subway is dead quiet in early afternoons, DG Wright's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, and students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The BLS Coin Collectors Club's national animal is the bishal florin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The BLS Coin Collectors Club is ranked 119,085^th in the world and 70^th in Empire of Great Britain for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,023.28 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.