The Republic of VELKOZ is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and flagrant waste-dumping. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 1.89 billion Que are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Healthcare, Welfare, and Administration are also considered important. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 45.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Que economy, worth 426 trillion Ques a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 225,681 Ques, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,024,010 per year while the poor average 3,216, a ratio of 629 to 1.

Que companies generally just fire employees in lieu of giving them vacation, new funding allows inner city teachers to replace school laptops almost as fast as they get stolen, wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts, and prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows. Crime is well under control. VELKOZ's national animal is the Que, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

VELKOZ is ranked 224,073^rd in the world and 67^th in Poetry for Safest, scoring 24.93 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.