The Federal Democratic Republic of Vancovaria is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by YK Milton with a fair hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.097 billion Vancovarians 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 medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vancopolis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Vancovarian economy, worth a remarkable 9,560 trillion vaneroes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 396,769 vaneroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has declared that sharing is uncaring, election results are often delayed for weeks to count the expat votes, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, and drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government. Crime is totally unknown. Vancovaria's national animal is the elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vancovaria is ranked 224,731^st in the world and 102^nd in The Social Liberal Union for Most Pro-Market, scoring 18.11 on the Rand Index.