The Federal Democratic Republic of Floedlaenn is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Agust MacLeoid with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.15 billion Floedlaennians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cartéras. The average income tax rate is 78.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Floedlaennian economy, worth 918 trillion dálers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 128,463 dálers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Party leaders rely on horoscopes to create "ticket balance", prudishness is on the way out, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, and no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Floedlaenn's national animal is the orca, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Church of the Benevolent Divines.

Floedlaenn is ranked 9,115^th in the world and 69^th in Refugia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 5,922.26 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.