The Consorci Airgonàutic of Flying Fortresses is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Ghielm VII d'Hausbi with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.779 billion Flyfortressarns are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lastors. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Flyfortressarn economy, worth a remarkable 1,988 trillion aurs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 184,444 aurs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Flying Fortresses has been greatly criticised for its isolationist policies, prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams, much of Flying Fortresses's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, and police struggle to solve crimes due to the lack of fingerprint records. Crime is totally unknown. Flying Fortresses's national animal is the aurelya veulina, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is aeromància.

Flying Fortresses is ranked 7,754^th in the world and 1^st in The Dejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 106.2 law-abiding acts per hour.