The Republic of Vulonia is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Georgio Lamaro with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 5.388 billion Vulonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Santa Pantela. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vulonian economy, worth 686 trillion Vistoes a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,404 Vistoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, police escort anti-abortion activists to free speech cages if they try to express their views, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-Visto mansions, and the police go to great efforts to seize contraband favored by politicians on the police oversight committee. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Vulonia's national animal is the Stoat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Vulonism.

Vulonia is ranked 180,309^th in the world and 949^th in Europe for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 970.58 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.