The Most Serene Republic of Flaaklypa is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by the Prime Minister with an even hand, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, hatred of cheese, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.903 billion Enlightened enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hovedstaden. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Enlightened economy, worth 356 trillion Favours a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is 91,446 Favours, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators, the horniness of the great-horned Elephant is considered a national priority, exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, and there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Enlightened grocery store. Crime is totally unknown. Flaaklypa's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Enlightenment.

Flaaklypa is ranked 37,196^th in the world and 218^th in NationStates for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 4.35 Bank.