

Average income is 51,048 Flags, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest. State-owned companies are reasonably common.

The Flag Maker economy, worth 423 trillion Flags a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flag Makers Union. The minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The hard-working, democratic population of 8.297 billion Flag Makers 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 Retired NS Flag Maker of Flag Makeria is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Flag Maker Number 1 with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and irreverence towards religion.
