The Colours of Flames is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lucifer with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 24.141 billion Flamesians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Public Transport, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flamia. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Flamesian economy, worth 410 trillion Flames a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, extremely specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 17,019 Flames, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets, cars are banned, Flames has designated Flamia as its capital city, and Lucifer has just been declared ruler of Flames in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flames's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Fire.

Flames is ranked 191,739^th in the world and 1^st in Northern Plateau for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2.28 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.