The United Socialist States of Ventera is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Lucifia Gale with a fair hand, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.092 billion Venterans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Galedom. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Venteran economy, worth 105 trillion Fiamins 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Trout Farming. Average income is 96,926 Fiamins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In a baffling press conference Lucifia Gale proudly dismantled a broken door, cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, and research grant proposals read like political diatribes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ventera's national animal is the Snow Leapord, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ventera is ranked 12,459^th in the world and 58^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Highest Food Quality, scoring 146.63 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.