The Happy Eagles of Flying Eagles is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Defender with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 13.43 billion Eagles are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Defender City. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Eagleian economy, worth a remarkable 1,434 trillion Paper Defenders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 106,841 Paper Defenders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals, people typically base their votes on which party has the cutest logo, Defender's used car is held together by bumper stickers that support the opposition, and the bureaucracy's scale makes the trees wail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flying Eagles's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Defenderism.

Flying Eagles is ranked 52,323^rd in the world and 321^st in 10000 Islands for Highest Average Incomes, with 106,841.21 Standard Monetary Units.