The Republic of AFTER TORCHING PIXEL HUGGERS VINNY is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 2.262 billion AFTER TORCHING PIXEL HUGGERS VINNYians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 64.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant AFTER TORCHING PIXEL HUGGERS VINNYian economy, worth 14.6 trillion deniers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Cheese Exports, Trout Farming, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 6,464 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. AFTER TORCHING PIXEL HUGGERS VINNY's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

AFTER TORCHING PIXEL HUGGERS VINNY is ranked 210,119^th in the world and 4^th in Federation of Socialist States for Most Armed, with 0.19 Weapons Per Person.