The Planet of Velella is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.555 billion Velellans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 64.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Velellan economy, worth 265 trillion Imperial Dollars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,529 Imperial Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Cities in Velella declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings, a new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water, people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support Leader, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Velella's national animal is the Kabasan Poverty Hound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Velella is ranked 219,890^th in the world and 2^nd in Firmament for Least Corrupt Governments, with 91.73 percentage of bribes refused.