The Scarlet Speedster of The Flash X is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Barry Allen with an even hand, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 804 million Flashes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Central City. The average income tax rate is 52.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Flashy economy, worth 51.8 trillion bolts a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 64,383 bolts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, and Barry Allen has just been declared ruler of The Flash X in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Flash X's national animal is the cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Flash X is ranked 295,708^th in the world and 36^th in The Crimson Empire for Largest Black Market, with 27.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.