The Free Federal Republic of Flahaten is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Home Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.769 billion Flahathians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flahaten City. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Flahatenian economy, worth 188 trillion Bucks a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 106,663 Bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School football matches are usually five-a-side, the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, and convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes. 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 12,001^st in the world and 460^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 10,268.57 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.