The Empire of Veccus is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 488 million Veccusians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Veville. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Veccusian economy, worth 57.7 trillion Trons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 118,322 Trons, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 700,511 per year while the poor average 9,222, a ratio of 76.0 to 1.

Teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, athletes are renowned for being the best at maths, and the government funds private schools for intellectually gifted children. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Veccus's national animal is the squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Veccus is ranked 2,422^nd in the world and 58^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 14,136.34 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.