The Oppressed Peoples of Liberation of Vuiz is a small, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 20 million Liberation of Vuizians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The minute government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 5.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fair Liberation of Vuizian economy, worth 251 billion Tokens 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, highly specialized black market in Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, Gambling, and Pizza Delivery. 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 12,590 Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents, citizens gather eagerly to witness exotic animals being blasted out of cannons, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers, and the deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Liberation of Vuiz's national animal is the Phoenix, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Liberation of Vuiz is ranked 217,141^st in the world and 1,080^th in the Outback for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3.22 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.