The Free Land of Vantas is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 12 million Vantasians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The developing Vantasian economy, worth 351 billion Peruvian phalluses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Soda Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 29,278 Peruvian phalluses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, it is a crime to operate a combine harvester while intoxicated, and the government's suicide hotline now redirects callers to local tax lawyers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vantas's national animal is the crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Vantas is ranked 177,987^th in the world and 2,571^st in The North Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 9.67 Obesity Rate.