The Allied States of Flautun is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Peter Peterson with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.178 billion Flautunians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Barmi. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Flautunian economy, worth 586 trillion Flauts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 113,289 Flauts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign leaders are advising that Peter Peterson's letters must have gotten lost in the mail, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural, and The Pipe Bomb Makers' Pop-Up Book can be found in preschool libraries. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flautun's national animal is the Flautunian Wild Short Tailed Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Flautun is ranked 268,510^th in the world and 10,291^st in Osiris for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 9,969.48 Standard Monetary Units.