The Life in the Woods of Vragol the Orc Shaman is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Shaman Vragol with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, complete lack of prisons, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 16.669 billion Vragols are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shaman Temple. The average income tax rate is 86.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Vragolish economy, worth 526 trillion Herbs and Mushrooms a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Tourism, Cheese Exports, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 31,570 Herbs and Mushrooms, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, astronomers are flocking to Vragol the Orc Shaman to take advantage of its clear night skies, and long-wed spouses often regret proposals they made when they were twenty. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vragol the Orc Shaman's national animal is the Mork Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Forest Shamanism.

Vragol the Orc Shaman is ranked 83,327^th in the world and 6^th in Sweden for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.05 law-abiding acts per hour.