The Free Land of Vaidikashan is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 727 million Vaidikashanians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Vaidikashanian economy, worth 11.6 trillion Livestocks 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 black market in Tourism, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. 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 15,955 Livestocks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vaidikashan's national animal is the Tiger.

Vaidikashan is ranked 249,818^th in the world and 64^th in India for Most Patriotic, with 3.5 flags saluted per person per day.