The República de Cuba of Vegaga is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Fidel Castro with an iron fist, and renowned for its aversion to nipples, enslaved workforce, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.551 billion cubanos are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of La Havana. The average income tax rate is 94.3%.

The frighteningly efficient cubano economy, worth a remarkable 3,989 trillion peso cubanoes a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 294,412 peso cubanoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,057,039 per year while the poor average 58,752, a ratio of 18.0 to 1.

Burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime, soldiers are slaughtered in their thousands due to lack of training, contrails and thunderous rumbles have returned to the skies above, and the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms. Crime is all-pervasive. Vegaga's national animal is the tocororo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Santería.

Vegaga is ranked 1,524^th in the world and 1^st in Commonwealth of Liberty for Largest Black Market, with 6,044 trillion Standard Monetary Units.