The United Socialist States of Public VC is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its state-planned economy and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 4.206 billion Public VCians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 37.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Public VCian economy, worth 39.5 trillion rubledollars 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 Trout Farming, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. 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 9,393 rubledollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Public VC's national animal is the red hawk.

Public VC is ranked 249,866^th in the world and 7,269^th in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 7.68 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.