The Free Land of Veeronica is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic, devout population of 609 million Veeronicans 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 39.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Veeronican economy, worth 25.0 trillion batteries a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Basket Weaving, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 41,076 batteries, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government is proud to report that ten percent of all tax revenue goes to funding suspected terrorist organizations, college students sell their most valuable possessions just to afford pizza, the value of the battery is directly tied to the strength of the previous hurricane season, and the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass". Crime is totally unknown. Veeronica's national animal is the news reporter, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Veeronica is ranked 244,303^rd in the world and 4^th in twotimes stupid alts for Most Secular, with 13.36 Atheism Rate.