The Department of Vienne is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Gaël-Patrick de Châtellerault with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 22.459 billion Viennoises 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poitiers. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.5%.

The thriving Viennois economy, worth a remarkable 1,174 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 52,285 francs, with the richest citizens earning 6.3 times as much as the poorest.

Diners regard burgers made from mechanically reclaimed cow protein as "proper meat", drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, supermarket milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets, and all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vienne's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Vienne is ranked 232,954^th in the world and 69^th in Department Store for Most Beautiful Environments, with 389.88 pounds of wildlife per square mile.