The Fairyland of Flimba is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Lady Wednesday Klim Baah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, ban on automobiles, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 14.379 billion Flimbans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gra Scylars. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Flimban economy, worth a remarkable 1,482 trillion Punds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 103,124 Punds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", full-page newspaper ads are taken out linking apples and gravitational acceleration, Flimba is sometimes referred to as the global janitor, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flimba's national animal is the Beetle, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Flimbaism.

Flimba is ranked 135,764^th in the world and 5,336^th in Lazarus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,114.3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.