The Scarlet Speedster of The Flash XIV is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Barry Allen with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 823 million Flashes are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Central City. The average income tax rate is 52.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Flashy economy, worth 43.6 trillion bolts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,942 bolts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Barbers who trim a few inches of hair bill the government for their labor, the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics, Barry Allen has just been declared ruler of The Flash XIV in an international press conference, and a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Flash XIV's national animal is the cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Flash XIV is ranked 270,021^st in the world and 48^th in The Crimson Empire for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 607.5 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.