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 pith helmet sales, infamous sell-swords, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.349 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, Administration, and Industry. 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 2,315 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 187,545 aurs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Companies are literally blowing their competition out of the water, a National Academy regulates grammar and usage, seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, and weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law. 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 7,352^nd in the world and 1^st in The Dejected Realms for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 8,737.92 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.