The Dominion of Vanderblight is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Linden Smith with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.142 billion Vanderblightians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brightwood. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Vanderblightian economy, worth 356 trillion Dollars 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 113,409 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow, nothing gets the party jumping like Linden Smith specifying how high, and visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vanderblight's national animal is the Timber Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Pack of the Wolf.

Vanderblight is ranked 35,216^th in the world and 765^th in The East Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.88 law-abiding acts per hour.