The Floral Republic of Stygios is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Rhett Mallory with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, sprawling nuclear power plants, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 3.53 billion Stygiosians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lykofos. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stygiosian economy, worth 473 trillion Vesperas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 134,092 Vesperas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, arbitration is mightier than the sword, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, and purported secret military bases are dismissed by Rhett Mallory to be highly-advanced toilet factories. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stygios's national animal is the Monarch Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Protestantism.

Stygios is ranked 18,892^nd in the world and 27^th in Union of Allied States for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 318.43 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.