The Floral Commune of Peace and Love but Better is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Lavender Kuznetsov-Penrose with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 10.183 billion Flowers enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the shed. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Flower economy, worth 605 trillion Green Carnations a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 59,465 Green Carnations, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, the derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun, it's all quiet on the western front, and bronze and marble supplies are running low as sculptors depict full-figured subjects. Crime is totally unknown. Peace and Love but Better's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Georgeism.

Peace and Love but Better is ranked 253,548^th in the world and 854^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -7.62 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.