The Lady Sings the Blues of Billy Holiday is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Eleanora Fagan with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, ubiquitous missile silos, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 22.74 billion Billy Holidayians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Philadelphia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Billy Holidayian economy, worth a remarkable 6,045 trillion Vocal Jazz Songs a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 265,840 Vocal Jazz Songs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,137,617 per year while the poor average 39,824, a ratio of 28.6 to 1.

Agricultural employees work for peanuts, Eleanora Fagan has killer fashion sense, the media seems excessively interested in what Eleanora Fagan is wearing this season, and nervous homeowners have been blamed for rising death rates amongst carol singers and locksmiths. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Billy Holiday's national animal is the Heroin Horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Agnostic Pantheism.

Billy Holiday is ranked 4,642^nd in the world and 123^rd in NationStates for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 19,720.96 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.