The Commonwealth of Vondex is a mammoth, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 7.683 billion Vondexians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Clermont-Ferrand. The average income tax rate is 65.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Vondexian economy, worth 317 trillion baht 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 41,336 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They who do not work shall not eat, increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times, defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were, and some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vondex's national animal is the chardonneret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vondex is ranked 60,966^th in the world and 2^nd in Dawnstar for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,686.25 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.