The Ancient Sentinel of Venmere is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Wilhelm Crane with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.603 billion Venmereans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alcuta. The average income tax rate is 79.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Venmerean economy, worth a remarkable 2,371 trillion Silvers a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 204,404 Silvers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Diplomats miss flights while wandering Alcuta Airport's endless art maze, foreign ambassadors closely guard their culinary secrets, stocks go up when the internet says so, and civil engineers are undermining sinkholes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Venmere's national animal is the Peregrine Falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Venmere is ranked 291,330^th in the world and 8^th in 001 Alpha Prime for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.45 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.