The Kingdom of Vassenor is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Queen Xanthe I with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 25.459 billion Vassenorians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Albertine. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Vassenorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,412 trillion Karrens a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 55,465 Karrens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids, chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in St Albertine's playgrounds, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vassenor's national animal is the Red Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vassenor is ranked 31,432^nd in the world and 7^th in The Transgender Region for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 6,823.68 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.