The Holy Empire of Blich is a small, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 32 million Blichians 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 Education, Welfare, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Blichian economy, worth 366 billion blich blucks 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 11,452 blich blucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural, cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes, young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves, and saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blich's national animal is the blich bloys, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Blich is ranked 225,540^th in the world and 16^th in The Wooster High School for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 742.48 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.