The United States of Flered is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, democratic population of 932 million Fleredians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flered City. The average income tax rate is 74.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Fleredian economy, worth 34.5 trillion Orges a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,984 Orges, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Flered to be bombproof, there's nothing special about Leader, political clichés like "band-aid solutions" and "adrenaline shots to the economy" are headed for the dumpster, and child labor has been outlawed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flered's national animal is the Atom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Flered is ranked 123,409^th in the world and 142^nd in The League for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,967.74 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.