The United Socialist States of Vxphong is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working population of 440 million Vxphongians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vuizcomm City Center. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.2%.

The strong Vxphongian economy, worth 29.8 trillion Cyber Dong a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,760 Cyber Dong, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 194,279 per year while the poor average 18,803, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

Prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows, diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm, tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers, and Leader's family members carry literal get-out-of-jail-free cards. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vxphong's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Vxphong is ranked 166,289^th in the world and 3^rd in Vuizcomm for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 27.18 Effective Tax Rate.