The Republic of Vithae is a massive, genial nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, devout population of 1.659 billion Vithaeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65.9%.

The Vithaean economy, worth 83.8 trillion dollars 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, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. 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 50,536 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 195,051 per year while the poor average 8,995, a ratio of 21.7 to 1.

Sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, every week is blindness awareness week, emergency vehicles have built-in nudge bars to give uncooperative drivers a "gentle" push, and flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vithae's national animal is the aplix, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vithae is ranked 200,759^th in the world and 756^th in Concord for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring zero on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.