The Island Empire of Vanartua is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Jackson Smitherson with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.145 billion Vanartuans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vana. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Vanartuan economy, worth 74.8 trillion deniers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,883 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property, grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, and government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vanartua's national animal is the seagull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Atheism.

Vanartua is ranked 228,193^rd in the world and 124^th in United Democratic Nations for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.59 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.