The Democratic Republic of Vanteva is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 348 million Vantevans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 18.3%.

The Vantevan economy, worth 18.9 trillion pinions a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Tourism. Average income is 54,436 pinions, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament, older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, and soldiers are equipped with multi-million pinion battlesuits. Crime is almost non-existent. Vanteva's national animal is the oti bird, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Vanteva is ranked 294,268^th in the world and 3^rd in Lusobutanese Union for Largest Black Market, with 20.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.