The Empire of Vuldan is a tiny, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 16 million Vuldanians 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 tiny government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.9%.

The very strong Vuldanian economy, worth 1.22 trillion dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 75,940 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 9.4 times as much as the poorest.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal, and the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Vuldan's national animal is the Wedge-Tail Egale, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vuldan is ranked 116,653^rd in the world and 410^th in Concord for Most Developed, scoring 58.82 on the Human Development Index.