The Motorcycles of Flandria is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Claeys with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 26.338 billion Flandrians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zedelgem. The average income tax rate is 80.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Flandrian economy, worth a remarkable 3,088 trillion franks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 117,275 franks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines, former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone, and adultery has been made a capital offence. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flandria's national animal is the Vogel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Flandria is ranked 20,853^rd in the world and 1,475^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 97.44 kickbacks per hour.