The Flying Thingy of Planes is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Dan Havilliand with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 5.935 billion Planesians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bombardier-Boeing-Airbus city. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Planesian economy, worth 645 trillion Engines a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,713 Engines, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The endangered saltwater humpback Syrian Hamster is only seen in captivity programs, the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers, where there's a will there is usually a password manager, and the transit system is throwing poor people under the bus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Planes's national animal is the Syrian Hamster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Airplane Worship.

Planes is ranked 252,036^th in the world and 6,907^th in Osiris for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.23 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.