The Matriarchy of Mariflores is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Her Matriarch Mari Flores with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.563 billion Marifloresians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garden of Flores. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Marifloresian economy, worth 164 trillion Ains a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 105,426 Ains, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, rare art has become a significant factor in negotiating all foreign trade agreements, and the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence. Crime is totally unknown. Mariflores's national animal is the Death's-Head HawkMoth, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Mariflores is ranked 24,079^th in the world and 66^th in The Frontier Sea for Most Developed, scoring 85.4 on the Human Development Index.