The Free Land of Van Augur is a large, cultured nation, notable for its frequent executions, disturbing lack of elderly people, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 177 million Van Augurians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 17.5%.

The very strong Van Augurian economy, worth 12.3 trillion Bellies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 69,341 Bellies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country, and liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Van Augur's national animal is the Skull, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Van Augur is ranked 152,950^th in the world and 44^th in Mugiwara Clan for Most Developed, scoring 55.8 on the Human Development Index.