The Grand Imperium of Vhass is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Imperator Maximilian Vhass with an iron fist, and renowned for its digital currency, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.819 billion Vhassians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Aurora. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Vhassian economy, worth a remarkable 1,257 trillion Imperial Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 184,433 Imperial Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Feeling like a winner comes at a price, civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, if a tree falls in the forest there is no sound except a cash register ringing, and refugees without a PhD are sent back to where they came from. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vhass's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vhass is ranked 154,177^th in the world and 2,176^th in the South Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,717.77 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.