The People's Republic of Flendaria is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 845 million Flendarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Flendarian economy, worth 66.7 trillion Flendis 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 78,919 Flendis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses, birth rates have hit an all-time low, 3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly, and the fastest growing demographic of porn viewership is twelve to seventeen. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flendaria's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Flendaria is ranked 13,475^th in the world and 372^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 9,731.38 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.