The Republic of Flece is a mid-sized, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The quiet, industrious population of 67 million Fleceans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 50.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Flecean economy, worth 2.16 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 32,259 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Flece City Women's Prison Choir now has a baritone section, the government is seen to favor traditionalist religions, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flece's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Flece is ranked 284,421^st in the world and 265^th in Shadow Realms for Most Conservative, scoring 17.43 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.