The Mikulight of Vintrel is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.315 billion Vintrelli 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 relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roccataleno. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.5%.

The thriving Vintrelli economy, worth 421 trillion uans a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 97,659 uans, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 319,743 per year while the poor average 22,403, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

People eagerly queue days at A&E to wait for their free healthcare, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, and fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vintrel's national animal is the crow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Vintrel is ranked 285,524^th in the world and 497^th in Starlight for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 35.34 on the Kitten Softness Rating.