The United Socialist States of Vice Secretary is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, compulsory gun ownership, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 4.475 billion Vice Secretaryians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 17.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Vice Secretaryian economy, worth 202 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 45,147 Delta Eagles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs, no animal is considered endangered if there's another that looks kind of like it, gun ownership is compulsory, and the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vice Secretary's national animal is the Kitsune, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vice Secretary is ranked 147,836^th in the world and 9^th in kursk for Largest Populations, with 4.47 billion capita.