The Republic of Vross is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 250 million Vrossians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Vrossian economy, worth 14.6 trillion Doubloons a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,552 Doubloons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents are fined for sending their children to take out the trash after sunset, the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, and a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vross's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vross is ranked 281,280^th in the world and 102^nd in Aeternas for Highest Drug Use, scoring 29.41 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.