The Republic of Vespurg is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working population of 257 million Vespurgians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Great Pheasant City. The average income tax rate is 24.3%.

The thriving Vespurgian economy, worth 19.1 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,157 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic, ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences, shivering secretaries type letters under torrential downpours in open-roof offices, and Vespurg has designated Great Pheasant City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vespurg's national animal is the horned snake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vespurg is ranked 114,895^th in the world and 2,353^rd in the South Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,793.96 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.