The United Socialist States of Vetelo is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Generalissimo Attero Dirotsky with an iron fist, and notable for its ban on automobiles, avant-garde cinema, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 22.504 billion Vetelonians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Law & Order, and Environment also on the agenda, while Defense and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Miguel. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Vetelonian economy, worth a remarkable 5,079 trillion USSD Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 225,727 USSD Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government funds large training centres to turn Kiwis into functioning members of society, they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop), Air Vetelo tickets have reached sky-high prices due to a complete monopoly on air travel, and pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vetelo's national animal is the Kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a Cult of Personality.

Vetelo is ranked 329,940^th in the world and 28^th in USSD for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -23.24 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.