The People's Republic of Volturno Commune is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 331 million Volturno Communeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Volturno Communean economy, worth 7.87 trillion lire a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 23,788 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet, politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, and the only science is political science. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Volturno Commune's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Volturno Commune is ranked 258,071^st in the world and 5,835^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 61 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.