The Commonwealth of Vaultshire is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate population of 536 million Vaultshireans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Klavis. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Vaultshirean economy, worth 31.4 trillion Kroner a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Book Publishing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 58,636 Kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face, and some say Leader has gone MAD after authorizing the development of apocalyptic biological weapons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vaultshire's national animal is the Sea Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Vaultshire is ranked 170,612^th in the world and 857^th in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 132.63 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.