The Grand Duchy of Vaughlack is a very large, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 243 million Vaughlackers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 50.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Vaughlackian economy, worth 15.4 trillion Soliduses a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,486 Soliduses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Baby formula has some strange packaging, factories grind to a halt every time there is an election, Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, and all the cool kids have tetanus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vaughlack's national animal is the Anatosaura, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vaughlack is ranked 114,652^nd in the world and 582^nd in Europeia for Most Developed, scoring 59.06 on the Human Development Index.