The Platypus Flood of The Vibing Platypus is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Jason Smith with a fair hand, and notable for its ritual sacrifices, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 2.258 billion Vibing Platypuses enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Platypus Vibe City. The average income tax rate is 81.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient A Vibing Platypus economy, worth 67.3 trillion Platypuses a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 29,795 Platypuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

President Jason Smith is refusing to make decisions until the Moon is out of Capricorn, the default state for The Vibing Platypus is default, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, and divorcees attending custody disputes tend to wear black-and-white zigzag patterns. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Vibing Platypus's national animal is the Antarctic blue whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Vibeism.

The Vibing Platypus is ranked 283,664^th in the world and 559^th in Vibonia for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -13.19 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.