The Republic of Ventala is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its lack of airports, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 159 million Ventalans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 47.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Ventalian economy, worth 5.61 trillion anemons a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,262 anemons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government ministers have eclectic tastes in curtains, children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants, students abandon classrooms for online education, and welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ventala's national animal is the Crystalfly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ventala is ranked 156,598^th in the world and 285^th in Refugia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 514.54 on the Gilded Widget Scale.