The Confederacy of Velourena is a tiny, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 18 million Velourins are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.7%.

The strong Velourin economy, worth 1.20 trillion Dinares a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Pizza Delivery, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 66,639 Dinares, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

There's never a spare chair in the retirement home, EpiPen sales have skyrocketed, inheritance tax has recently been abolished, and devotion to God is only skin-deep. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Velourena's national animal is the Dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Velourena is ranked 170,089^th in the world and 2,507^th in The North Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,045.56 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.