The Empirical Empire of Venusi is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, digital currency, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 13.715 billion Venusians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Healthcare, and Environment are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fresco Nova. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Venusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,503 trillion piezoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 109,636 piezoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', and gift baskets often contain working nukes. Crime is totally unknown. Venusi's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Venusi is ranked 45,382^nd in the world and 8^th in Realm of Unrestricted Science for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,257.87 on the Gilded Widget Scale.