The Republic of Flying Hills is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Gillen with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 13.356 billion Flying Hillsmen are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flying Hills Village. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.6%.

The frighteningly efficient a Flying Hillsman economy, worth a remarkable 1,403 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 105,063 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 705,697 per year while the poor average 5,854, a ratio of 120 to 1.

Citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', religious leaders order congregants to love any neighbour who is just like themselves, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, and shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flying Hills's national animal is the Peacock, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Parho.

Flying Hills is ranked 43,746^th in the world and 1^st in Windfrost Peaks for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 165.63 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.