The Happy Eagles of Flying Eagles is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Defender with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 17.384 billion Eagles are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Defender City. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Eagleian economy, worth a remarkable 1,859 trillion Paper Defenders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 106,976 Paper Defenders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Defender panders to nontraditional families, with increasingly clear skies nobody seems to mind the electricity bill going through the roof, years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, and cars are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flying Eagles's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Defenderism.

Flying Eagles is ranked 7,027^th in the world and 99^th in 10000 Islands for Nicest Citizens, with 38.34 average smiles per day.