The Montane Republic of Vanuralia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 26.335 billion Vanuralites are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic government is primarily concerned with Law & Order, with Spirituality, Defense, and Industry also on the agenda, while Administration and Public Transport are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.6%.

The thriving Vanuralic economy, worth a remarkable 1,243 trillion rhodium lire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Average income is 47,202 rhodium lire, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary, Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and military spending recently hit a new high. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Vanuralia's national animal is the pallas cat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Vanuralia is ranked 127,012^th in the world and 1^st in Ural Mountains for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.