The Joyous Confederation of Wat Blum is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by the Superregional Congress with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 16.209 billion Waters 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urbis Congressus. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Blumie economy, worth a remarkable 3,329 trillion blumes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 205,413 blumes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

T-shirts displaying a photo of the Superregional Congress performing the Full-Monty are selling out, the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, and undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations. Crime is totally unknown. Wat Blum's national animal is the warbler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wat Blum is ranked 13,988^th in the world and 689^th in Osiris for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,473.79 on the Gilded Widget Scale.