The Golden Era of The Vaktovian Empire is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Archibald William Crane II with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, triple-decker prams, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 16.183 billion Vaktovians 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, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Octavia. The average income tax rate is 70.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Vaktovian Empirean economy, worth 552 trillion Tripzoli Dollars 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 Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. 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 34,117 Tripzoli Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes, the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands, hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings, and litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Vaktovian Empire's national animal is the Black Spotted Cardinal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is undeclared religion.

The Vaktovian Empire is ranked 40,458^th in the world and 2,657^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.5 law-abiding acts per hour.