The Floral Republic of Stygios is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Rhett Mallory with an even hand, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 3.476 billion Stygiosians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lykofos. The average income tax rate is 93.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stygiosian economy, worth 465 trillion Vesperas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 133,806 Vesperas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The black market offers sweet deals, the government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market, businesses are required to round down their profits, and elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stygios's national animal is the Monarch Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Protestantism.

Stygios is ranked 302,405^th in the world and 91^st in Union of Allied States for Fattest Citizens, with 4.09 Obesity Rate.