The Commonwealth of Upper Floppastan is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Tirado with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.743 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 91.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Upper Floppastanian economy, worth 423 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 154,469 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People with dyslexia are told to tough through it, the recycled air in planes is nauseating, music award shows include surprise polygraph segments, and smoking is banned in public areas. 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 123,777^th in the world and 2^nd in SimDemocracy for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,040 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.