The República of Vientina is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Hans Woodsen with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, anti-smoking policies, and national health service. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 7.173 billion Vientinans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astória. The average income tax rate is 89.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vientinan economy, worth a remarkable 1,837 trillion Renzes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 256,184 Renzes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government proudly leads the world in environmental regulators per capita, old cars must undergo mandatory sensitivity training, some achieve retirement and some have retirement thrust upon them, and city-slickers are jelly of all the farmland the government is giving away. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Vientina's national animal is the Angora Rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vientina is ranked 4,130^th in the world and 103^rd in Europe for Most Cultured, scoring 176 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.