The People's Republic of Flortle is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Christina Felti with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, sprawling nuclear power plants, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 2.81 billion Flortlillians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Turtlehassee. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Flortlillian economy, worth 509 trillion Flortillian Shells a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 181,261 Flortillian Shells, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government maintains a Department of Skulduggery, street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons, primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit, and exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flortle's national animal is the Turtle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Flortlillian Spiritualism.

Flortle is ranked 3,613^th in the world and 1^st in Kaltmera for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 92.77 on the Kitten Softness Rating.