The Carefree United Kingdom of Vanela is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Oliver Forch with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and daily referendums. The compassionate, devout population of 5.426 billion Vanelansy are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kelia. The average income tax rate is 76.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vanelan economy, worth 838 trillion Lotces a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 154,624 Lotces, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Therapists can always squeeze in another house-call, anyone with an emergency on a holy day is advised to pray harder, interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories", and boys are shocked by the revolutionary lesson that women are actually human. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vanela's national animal is the Delphin Vanelsky, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Neoartanism.

Vanela is ranked 130,501^st in the world and 76^th in Conch Kingdom for Largest Populations, with 5.43 billion capita.