The Scarlet Speedster of The Flash II is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Barry Allen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 827 million Flashes 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, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Central City. The average income tax rate is 62.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Flashy economy, worth 52.4 trillion bolts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,329 bolts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Barry Allen to meetings with foreign heads of state, barbers who trim a few inches of hair bill the government for their labor, ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips, and school lockers are filled with fancy underwear. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Flash II's national animal is the cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Flash II is ranked 130,038^th in the world and 1,875^th in The East Pacific for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 1,262.33 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.