The HUNGRY of Vincent Drake is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Some Random Guy with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 21.222 billion Vinnies have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Environment, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 56.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Vinny economy, worth 853 trillion Late updating regions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 40,214 Late updating regions, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Much of Vincent Drake's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, saying "don't do anything that Some Random Guy wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, virtually all of the country's economic activity takes place in Vincent Drake City, and Some Random Guy's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vincent Drake's national animal is the Griffon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Defending.

Vincent Drake is ranked 321,377^th in the world and 196^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -8.76 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.