The Demutualized Nation of Blackhill is a huge, genial nation, ruled by Pzari Harron with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 899 million Barra 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 enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moons River. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.3%.

The Barran economy, worth 41.2 trillion Lorrs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 45,820 Lorrs, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

Companies are turning to trained Sugar Gliders for their most menial jobs, black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, and anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blackhill's national animal is the Sugar Glider, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Blackhill is ranked 78,839^th in the world and 33^rd in Albastru for Most Conservative, scoring 72 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.