The Republic of Viysalion is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Caroll-Ann Fairchild with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 16.883 billion Viysalians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Celestia. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Viysalian economy, worth a remarkable 1,996 trillion einhorns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 118,283 einhorns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, and parking's carefree without parking car fees. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Viysalion's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Unicornism.

Viysalion is ranked 4,746^th in the world and 102^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,413.74 pounds of wildlife per square mile.