The People's Republic of Vitalunya is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Aitana Bonmati with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 1.055 billion Vitalunians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Porto Alegre. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Vitalunyan economy, worth 83.0 trillion Anors a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 78,641 Anors, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Aitana Bonmati's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, politicians who misplace decimal points on expense reports are fired for gross incompetence, garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau', and the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vitalunya's national animal is the Caracal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Vitalunya is ranked 279,502^nd in the world and 142^nd in Socialists for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -10.95 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.