The Fleetfooted Nomads of Floreque is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.342 billion Florequeans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The enormous, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.0%.

The very strong Florequean economy, worth a remarkable 1,084 trillion dyniums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 56,052 dyniums, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 227,269 per year while the poor average 9,202, a ratio of 24.7 to 1.

Floreque's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, thieves are flogged in public for their crimes, the government is avowedly atheist, and Animal Liberationists are regularly jailed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Floreque's national animal is the mushblart, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Floreque is ranked 260,053^rd in the world and 40^th in Christmas for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 27.14 on the Bus Surprisal Index.