The Free Land of Flowers 56 is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, democratic population of 6.996 billion Flowers 56ians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 10.4%.

The strong Flowers 56ian economy, worth 348 trillion Sunshines a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 49,785 Sunshines, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Flowers 56ian watches list strained wrists as a common side effect, well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time, people are arrested for looking too sternly at whales, and lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Flowers 56's national animal is the Honey bee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Flowers 56 is ranked 230,724^th in the world and 73^rd in Flowers for Lowest Crime Rates, with 55.94 law-abiding acts per hour.