The Rogue Nation of VanthaNation is a huge, pleasant nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 442 million Vanthalisians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.6%.

The strong VanthaNationian economy, worth 22.7 trillion Vanns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 51,310 Vanns, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.

Ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, and Leader has been seen stealthily slicing fifths off bread loaves. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. VanthaNation's national animal is the Reptiles, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

VanthaNation is ranked 110,378^th in the world and 2,125^th in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,154.17 on the Gilded Widget Scale.