The United Dominion of Vetok is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Emperor Survan Jaansma with an even hand, and notable for its absence of drug laws, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The democratic population of 24.135 billion Vetokites have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carrishem. The average income tax rate is 88.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vetokite economy, worth a remarkable 1,832 trillion Vetokite Credits a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Uranium Mining industry. Average income is 75,918 Vetokite Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners, out-of-work basketball players loom over the unemployment line, people make a career out of medical voyeurism, and serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vetok's national animal is the Sabre-bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vetok is ranked 56,111^th in the world and 66^th in Eurth for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 133.67 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.