The Free Land of Vantas is a small, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 23 million Vantasians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak Vantasian economy, worth 647 billion Peruvian phalluses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Soda Sales. Average income is 28,136 Peruvian phalluses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, for the sake of 'public interest' news programs tell viewers how to home-make Sarin gas bombs, nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, and children's TV shows are having a gay old time. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vantas's national animal is the crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Vantas is ranked 291,296^th in the world and 4,272^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.14 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.