The United Socialist States of Vxphong is a very large, genial nation, notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working population of 409 million Vxphongians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vuizcomm City Center. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.1%.

The strong Vxphongian economy, worth 27.7 trillion Cyber Dong a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,712 Cyber Dong, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 194,140 per year while the poor average 18,790, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

It is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows, diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm, and tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vxphong's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Vxphong is ranked 243,462^nd in the world and 2^nd in Vuizcomm for Largest Black Market, with 215 billion Standard Monetary Units.