The Aerial Marauder of Vanwyrm is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, avant-garde cinema, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed population of 4.443 billion Vanwyrmians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.2%.

The powerhouse Vanwyrmian economy, worth 387 trillion deniers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,123 deniers, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

A ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect, the statue in the Franklin Plaza has a solar panel for a hat, oilmen are in the business of greasing people's palms, and citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vanwyrm's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vanwyrm is ranked 269,443^rd in the world and 6^th in Prima Victoria for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 38.06 on the Kitten Softness Rating.