The People's Republic of Nelan Vastancakelvay is a large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 133 million Nelan Vastancakelvayians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Nelan Vastancakelvayian economy, worth 5.67 trillion RMBS 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. Average income is 42,664 RMBS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial Panda', there is no other place with more lab coats per square mile than former houses of worship, future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, and exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nelan Vastancakelvay's national animal is the panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nelan Vastancakelvay is ranked 221,031^st in the world and 3,416^th in The North Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 8.72 Obesity Rate.