The Empire of Vanoia is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 373 million Vanotians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small government prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 11.9%.

The very strong Vanoian economy, worth 31.8 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 85,280 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, industry tycoons rarely hide their misdeeds due to the government's habit of bailing them out, travel bureaus double as recruiting centers for national intelligence agencies, and thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors. Crime is totally unknown. Vanoia's national animal is the Wolf, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Vanoia is ranked 94,774^th in the world and 182^nd in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,627.28 on the Gilded Widget Scale.