The Evolutionary Phenomenon of Bioluminescence is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 45.779 billion Bioluminescenceans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.6%.

The thriving Bioluminescencean economy, worth a remarkable 2,310 trillion phosphors a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 50,475 phosphors, with the richest citizens earning 9.4 times as much as the poorest.

Organ donation is compulsory, the government is avowedly atheist, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime is moderate. Bioluminescence's national animal is the firefly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bioluminescence is ranked 122,223^rd in the world and 4^th in Atheist Empire for Most Patriotic, with 13.11 flags saluted per person per day.