The 1st 🐓 RepubliC of Changing Flags is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Dottie Prince with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 16.117 billion Changelings are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Windblows. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Changlinglish economy, worth a remarkable 2,180 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 135,310 Ducats, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 745,655 per year while the poor average 12,431, a ratio of 60.0 to 1.

The derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun, computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, and it is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Changing Flags's national animal is the Goat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Lookathatian Synod Of True True Faith.

Changing Flags is ranked 82,140^th in the world and 92^nd in The Regected Realns for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.23 law-abiding acts per hour.