The Same As It Ever Was of Charity Shop Bling is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Crazy Horse with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 32.77 billion Charity Shop Blingians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bling City. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Charity Shop Blingian economy, worth a remarkable 4,939 trillion blocs 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 150,742 blocs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy', dubiously qualified East Lebatuckese doctors prescribe ice baths as a treatment for pneumonia, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, and the banshee wail foretells skies of death. Crime is totally unknown. Charity Shop Bling's national animal is the Hummingbird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Faithless.

Charity Shop Bling is ranked 279,917^th in the world and 5^th in Genesis Defense Project for Most Primitive, scoring -338.24 on the Scary Big Number Scale.