The Holy Empire of Splunk is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 19.656 billion Splunkians 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Welfare, although Education, Healthcare, and Defense are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 42.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Splunkian economy, worth 402 trillion splodges a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 20,463 splodges, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary. Crime is totally unknown. Splunk's national animal is the beaver.

Splunk is ranked 99,248^th in the world and 29^th in Middle Earth for Nicest Citizens, with 13.62 average smiles per day.