The Free Land of Vantas is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 201 million Vantasians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Vantasian economy, worth 5.73 trillion Peruvian phalluses 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is 28,492 Peruvian phalluses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Optometrists will see citizens in seconds but health inspectors won't be sighted for years, incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, the mob vote is a crucial electoral demographic, and the government is spending billions of Peruvian phalluses on a fancy space probe to find a planet that may not even exist. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vantas's national animal is the crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Vantas is ranked 163,711^th in the world and 2,606^th in The North Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 23,282.97 Standard Monetary Units.