The Free Festive Republic of Flahaten is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Home Council with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 959 million Flahathians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flahaten City. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Flahatenian economy, worth 65.5 trillion Snow Bucks a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,304 Snow Bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, rare steaks seem even bluer now, Home Council claims to be the epitome of family values, and voting is voluntary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flahaten's national animal is the White-Crested Black Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Flahaten is ranked 32,867^th in the world and 1,269^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.65 law-abiding acts per hour.