The Galactic Rock'n'Roll Empire of VonduR is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Einvaldur with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and exploding hoverboards. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 35.776 billion VonduRians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The minute, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Social Policy and Environment not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vondur Rock City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient VonduRian economy, worth an astonishing 18,570 trillion knives a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is a breathtaking 519,087 knives, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,862,074 per year while the poor average 4,669, a ratio of 1,041 to 1.

The government spends billions to protect VonduR from a disaster that is one in a million, the daily weather forecast often predicts light showers of debris, high school career advisors advise belligerent loners to consider vigilantism, and guns don't kill people — heroes do. Crime is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. VonduR's national animal is the wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Satanism.

VonduR is ranked 333,903^rd in the world and 52^nd in Scandinavia for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring -54.41 on the Societal Mobility Rating.