The Incorporated Republic of BlackandGold is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Board of Directors with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, flagrant waste-dumping, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 48.438 billion Vinlandians 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 tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Whitefall. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient BlackandGoldian economy, worth an astonishing 15,942 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 329,136 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,251,455 per year while the poor average 17,357, a ratio of 129 to 1.

Old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation, punk rockers smash it up and then clean it up, the lives of former ski town residents are going downhill, and the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. BlackandGold's national animal is the Tasmanian devil, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

BlackandGold is ranked 29,287^th in the world and 36^th in Yggdrasil for Most Developed, scoring 83.21 on the Human Development Index.