The State of Vancomycin is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 37.908 billion Vancomycinians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government prioritizes Welfare, with Healthcare and Education also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Vancomycinian economy, worth 794 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 20,956 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is avowedly atheist, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, Vancomycin has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Vancomycin in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vancomycin's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vancomycin is ranked 274,324^th in the world and 4^th in Rwanda for Most Conservative, scoring 23 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.