The Federal Republic of Vesuva is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Marina Vendrell with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 21.579 billion Vesuvans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Changeling. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Vesuvan economy, worth a remarkable 3,408 trillion Vesuvan dollars 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 157,965 Vesuvan dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mathematicians are hated by children across the country, foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Vesuva will pay them to stop, Marina Vendrell's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, and conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vesuva's national animal is the Scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vesuva is ranked 303,201^st in the world and 5,693^rd in The North Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 5,528.79 Standard Monetary Units.