The Freeroaming Folks of Vicken is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Vixen Queene Laniel with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, infamous sell-swords, and national health service. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 13.222 billion Vickenians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kingfisher Town. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Vickenian economy, worth a remarkable 5,133 trillion Jots a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 388,249 Jots, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School lockers are filled with fancy underwear, digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution, small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, and octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vicken's national animal is the kingfisher, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Animism.

Vicken is ranked 151^st in the world and 6^th in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 100.23 on the Human Development Index.