The Allied States of Flautun is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Peter Peterson with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.099 billion Flautunians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Barmi. The average income tax rate is 95.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Flautunian economy, worth a remarkable 1,448 trillion Flauts a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 143,446 Flauts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Entomologists flock to Barmi for its remarkable gadfly population, the housing market has collapsed like an overbaked Brancalandian souffle, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, and recreational drug businesses are regularly pruned if they grow above the maximum legal size. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flautun's national animal is the Hooded Sea Duck, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Flautun is ranked 310,156^th in the world and 11,803^rd in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -27.52 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.