The Holy Imperial Realm of Vikendia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Kirill II Zaviryukhin with an iron fist, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 3.076 billion Vikendians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kholodnygorod. The average income tax rate is 82.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vikendian economy, worth 457 trillion Grivnas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 148,832 Grivnas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hell is not always other people, the economy is green and the air is black, students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations, and the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vikendia's national animal is the Zmei, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cult of Boreas.

Vikendia is ranked 30,315^th in the world and 99^th in Europe for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 5,462.72 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.