The Department of Vienne is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Gaël-Patrick de Châtellerault with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 24.02 billion Viennoises are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poitiers. The average income tax rate is 43.0%.

The powerhouse Viennois economy, worth a remarkable 1,460 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 60,798 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, tourists outnumber citizens two to one, punitive tariffs protect local industry, and drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vienne's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Vienne is ranked 88,930^th in the world and 6^th in Department Store for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,819.48 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.