The United Socialist States of The 21st Turtle Flight is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 583 million 21st Turtle Flightians 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 55.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish 21st Turtle Flightian economy, worth 14.7 trillion Fluffy Blankies 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is 25,130 Fluffy Blankies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The 21st Turtle Flight's national animal is the Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The 21st Turtle Flight is ranked 317,477^th in the world and 17,011^th in Osiris for Most Developed, scoring 46.55 on the Human Development Index.