The United Socialist States of New Flamington is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 6.767 billion New Flamingtonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City. The average income tax rate is 89.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Flamingtonian economy, worth 592 trillion Currencies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 87,487 Currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land, the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy, the fishing lobby has stemmed the tide of environmental regulations, and the recital of citations that follows any political speech can be longer than the speech itself. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. New Flamington's national animal is the Animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Religion.

New Flamington is ranked 66,755^th in the world and 275^th in The Leftist Assembly for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.58 law-abiding acts per hour.