The Mercantile Plutocracy of Kol Vatum is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Chancellor Octavian Caesar with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 934 million Vatumis are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aurora City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Kol Vatumian economy, worth 153 trillion kruges a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 164,535 kruges, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,153,819 per year while the poor average 8,022, a ratio of 143 to 1.

The controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular, the annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, and literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kol Vatum's national animal is the raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Kol Vatum is ranked 32,944^th in the world and 35^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,351.92 on the Gilded Widget Scale.