The Commonwealth of Upper Floppastan is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Tirado with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.814 billion Upper Floppastanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tiradoville. The average income tax rate is 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Upper Floppastanian economy, worth 437 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,464 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man, residents are readily ratting out rats in restaurants, Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping, and the military has adopted a weird double-fisted salute. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper Floppastan's national animal is the caracal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Upper Floppastan is ranked 201,340^th in the world and 4^th in SimDemocracy for Largest Black Market, with 478 billion Standard Monetary Units.