The Confederacy of Vawick is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, disturbing lack of elderly people, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 1.36 billion Vawickians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government prioritizes Defense, with Industry and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and International Aid are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Vawickian economy, worth 223 trillion Scraps 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Retail. 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 164,610 Scraps, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 962,623 per year while the poor average 13,212, a ratio of 72.9 to 1.

Pedants defending Leader observe that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't exactly the same thing, minor code style errors dull the house edge, law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students, and no one is worried about government policies any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Vawick's national animal is the Raven, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Vawick is ranked 195,932^nd in the world and 266^th in Edoca for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 22.03 Effective Tax Rate.