The Harmonious Commonwealth of Vitaela is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Micah Evander with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate population of 6.95 billion Vitaelans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alma. The average income tax rate is 78.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vitaelan economy, worth 829 trillion vyats 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 major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 119,330 vyats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, windows in Alma don't have much of a view, tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments, and scientists take credit every time it rains in Osiris. Crime is totally unknown. Vitaela's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Vitaela is ranked 10,451^st in the world and 551^st in Osiris for Nicest Citizens, with 30.58 average smiles per day.