The Federation of Vuswistan is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Panagiotakis Nicholalis with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 9.342 billion Vuswistanians, 8.888 billion of whom are zombies, hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tyrnatini. The average income tax rate is 17.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Vuswistanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,020 trillion Resmians a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 74,241 Resmians, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Sleazy politicians exploit the Parliamentary Code of Conduct to purge their rivals, caps with skulls on them are the height of fashion, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, and orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Vuswistan's national animal is the Coral snake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Christianity.

Vuswistan is ranked 239,618^th in the world and 128^th in Coalition of Crown Albatross for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -4.47 on the Clooney Contribution Index.