The Republic of Vertigoism is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Vert with a fair hand, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 6.625 billion Vertigoes 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Vertigo. The average income tax rate is 81.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vertigoese economy, worth a remarkable 1,206 trillion Vertigoese guilders a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 182,163 Vertigoese guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native Vertigoese casinos, the state auctions off combat drones to fund war reparations, people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis, and the "feminist protest" defence is increasingly common for cases of armed robbery. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vertigoism's national animal is the deer, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Vertigoism is ranked 216,120^th in the world and 3,222^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.