The Norse federation of Gothic Vandelia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by John Kaiser with an iron fist, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.658 billion Gothic Vandelians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Deep13. The average income tax rate is 80.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Gothic Vandelian economy, worth a remarkable 1,608 trillion Rand a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 439,659 Rand, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Much of Gothic Vandelia's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, foreign leaders' Twitcher accounts are monitored for potential threats to national security, students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework, and nude art is becoming wildly popular. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Gothic Vandelia's national animal is the Crow, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Norse.

Gothic Vandelia is ranked 60,173^rd in the world and 29^th in Novus Lucidum for Most Pro-Market, scoring 52 on the Rand Index.