The Census Ministry of Vendiagram is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Minister of the Census with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, lack of airports, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.553 billion Vendiagramians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Circle One. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.0%.

The powerhouse Vendiagramian economy, worth 332 trillion Excel Cells a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 93,595 Excel Cells, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 649,534 per year while the poor average 4,718, a ratio of 137 to 1.

Politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads, science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters, the Great Vendiagramian Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region, and public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment. Crime is a serious problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Vendiagram's national animal is the Cell Function, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Sort Function.

Vendiagram is ranked 136,748^th in the world and 99^th in The Union of Democratic States for Largest Populations, with 3.55 billion capita.