The Commonwealth of Upper Floppastan is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Tirado with an even hand, and notable for its vat-grown people, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.867 billion Upper Floppastanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tiradoville. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Upper Floppastanian economy, worth 446 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,893 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Shaken martini sales have soared in nations surrounding Upper Floppastan, home renovation shows are increasingly popular, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and children's TV shows are having a gay old time. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper Floppastan's national animal is the caracal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Upper Floppastan is ranked 11,721^st in the world and 5^th in SimDemocracy for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 4,933.58 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.