The Industrial Worker's State of Vlenkenov is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President Dmitri Semenov with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, flagrant waste-dumping, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 11.214 billion Vlenktsi hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The minute, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ochiyev City. The average income tax rate is 3.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vlenskoy economy, worth a remarkable 1,331 trillion Vlenkl's a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Gambling, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 118,774 Vlenkl's, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's countrysides are littered with landmines due to ongoing family disputes, schoolchildren are divided over President Dmitri Semenov's "Why Tigers are Cooler than Lions" speech, justice is blinding, and children in school playgrounds can be heard chanting the hymns of the Order of Violet. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Vlenkenov's national animal is the Quahog, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Vlenkenov is ranked 254,089^th in the world and 5,626^th in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 198.87 pounds of wildlife per square mile.