The Emirate of Vanilla Llama is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.808 billion Vanilla Llamen are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Vanilla Llaman economy, worth 229 trillion marks 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 large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Gambling, and Soda Sales. 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 an impressive 127,157 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 363,023 per year while the poor average 35,497, a ratio of 10.2 to 1.

Leader is strangely popular with male politicians' wives, scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, and chess players with pacemakers and cochlear implants are treated with suspicion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vanilla Llama's national animal is the emu, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vanilla Llama is ranked 33,885^th in the world and 121^st in the Plains of Perdition for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 234.54 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.