The Dictatorship of El Vangardia is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 4.135 billion El Vangardians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 51.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The El Vangardian economy, worth 184 trillion Kores a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,608 Kores, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many aides in Leader's office are known to be serial jaywalkers, the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs, owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation, and the government has declared "all your rigs are belong to us". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El Vangardia's national animal is the Anglerfish , which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

El Vangardia is ranked 207,250^th in the world and 3,736^th in the South Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -86.89 on the Scary Big Number Scale.