The Modern Consulship of Respublica Veneta is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Consul with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 25.615 billion Venetorum enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Healthcare, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Rome. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Veneta economy, worth a remarkable 7,723 trillion Faction Notes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an amazing 301,525 Faction Notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives, human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants, the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried American Robin Dung" has been declared a national treasure, and undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations. Crime is totally unknown. Respublica Veneta's national animal is the American Robin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Respublica Veneta is ranked 420^th in the world and 16^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 529 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.