The Federal Republic of Vesuva is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Jodah the Eternal with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, sprawling nuclear power plants, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.486 billion Vesuvans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Changeling. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Vesuvan economy, worth a remarkable 1,068 trillion Vesuvan dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 142,709 Vesuvan dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Solid-gold toilets are Vesuvan prisons' least expensive furnishings, government agents stalk the aisles of grocery stores for out-of-stock medications, the government denies that it has an agency overseeing plausible deniability of black-ops agencies, and hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vesuva's national animal is the Scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vesuva is ranked 7,587^th in the world and 359^th in The North Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 106,499.75 Standard Monetary Units.