The Beautiful Islands of Velmireth is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, disturbing lack of elderly people, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.477 billion Velmirethians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Sparklia City. The average income tax rate is 52.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Velmirethian economy, worth 96.9 trillion Palm Leaveses 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. 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 65,597 Palm Leaveses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The election for Leader's office's janitor is heating up, discarded pennies litter the streets, enemy governments seem especially interested in Velmireth's election cycle, and modesty is treated with the side-eye. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Velmireth's national animal is the Parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Velmireth is ranked 155,039^th in the world and 74^th in The Wellspring for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 407.44 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.