The United Socialist States of Vendosam is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 586 million Vendosamians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of vendosime. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Vendosamian economy, worth 64.0 trillion Stars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 109,299 Stars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Even the nation's brussel sprouts are delicious and nutritious, the nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks, environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests, and rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vendosam's national animal is the Red Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vendosam is ranked 114,177^th in the world and 6^th in Polar South for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,675.86 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.