The Holy Sovereign Empire of Blaiwana is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Ilya Rei Princeps Rublicae with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.961 billion Blaiwanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Welfare isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Auctoritas. The average income tax rate is 79.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Blaiwanan economy, worth 432 trillion Baics a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 145,997 Baics, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The dead fish in the national rivers aren't decomposing because even bacteria can't survive the levels of toxicity, a government program is underway to revitalize Blaiwana's beaches, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Blaiwana, and missionaries learn the hard way that their piercing spiritual insights are no match for arrows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blaiwana's national animal is the Gilded-Winged Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Empiric Worship.

Blaiwana is ranked 296,775^th in the world and 5,301^st in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -272.16 on the Scary Big Number Scale.