The Federal Democratic Republic of Vancovaria is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by YK Milton with a fair hand, and notable for its hatred of cheese, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 30.023 billion Vancovarians 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vancopolis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Vancovarian economy, worth an astonishing 13,737 trillion vaneroes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 457,569 vaneroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents plead with their children to consider prostitution instead of philosophy, hospitals in Vancovaria are too busy serving the needs of The Social Liberal Union to see Vancovarians, graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation', and the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause. Crime is totally unknown. Vancovaria's national animal is the blue whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Vancovaria is ranked 39^th in the world and 2^nd in The Social Liberal Union for Most Developed, scoring 101.46 on the Human Development Index.