The Kingdom of Venova is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by King William VI with an even hand, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, rampant corporate plagiarism, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed population of 5.934 billion Venovans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Venova. The average income tax rate is 74.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Venovan economy, worth 450 trillion Pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 75,901 Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens, and collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Venova's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Protestant Christianity.

Venova is ranked 286,198^th in the world and 15,380^th in Lazarus for Nicest Citizens, with 2.43 average smiles per day.