The Republic of Van Fleet Space Zone is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, infamous sell-swords, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 3.91 billion Van Fleet Space Zoneans 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, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Van Fleet Space Zonean economy, worth 628 trillion dinars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 160,697 dinars, with the richest citizens earning 9.7 times as much as the poorest.

The silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of Van Fleet Space Zonean democracy, "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster, thrift shops are closing their doors, and roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Van Fleet Space Zone's national animal is the star deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Van Fleet Space Zone is ranked 323,041^st in the world and 584^th in International Puppet Storage for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -12.73 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.