The Unassailable Logic of Planet Vulkan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by T'Pau with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 10.368 billion Vulcanians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ShiKahr. The average income tax rate is 92.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Vulcanian economy, worth 811 trillion Federation Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 78,249 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Older ladies are inundated with offers to help them cross the road, the stacked neck-ring is this season's hottest fashion item, helicopter parenting is on the rise, and T'Pau is quite hard to get a hold of. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Planet Vulkan's national animal is the Sehlat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Polytheism.

Planet Vulkan is ranked 22,542^nd in the world and 14^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Highest Food Quality, scoring 108.93 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.