The Republic of Vietn am is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.772 billion Vietnamese are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hanoi. The average income tax rate is 82.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Vietnamese economy, worth 163 trillion Dong a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. Average income is 92,000 Dong, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed, the dead fish in the national rivers aren't decomposing because even bacteria can't survive the levels of toxicity, the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market, and the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Vietnamese any less frightened. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vietn am's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vietn am is ranked 6,589^th in the world and 2^nd in East Asia for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 2,348.41 on the Clooney Contribution Index.