The Commonwealth of Upper Floppastan is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Tirado with an even hand, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.762 billion Upper Floppastanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tiradoville. The average income tax rate is 91.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Upper Floppastanian economy, worth 427 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 154,647 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Contestants on Upper Floppastan's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent, repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events, the musical cognoscenti insist the national anthem just isn't the same without a double contrabass flute, and graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper Floppastan's national animal is the caracal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Upper Floppastan is ranked 11,811^th in the world and 4^th in SimDemocracy for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 4,872.11 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.