The Commonwealth of Vholbersht is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Casey Stocke with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.409 billion Vholbershtians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strathern. The average income tax rate is 82.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vholbershtian economy, worth a remarkable 1,452 trillion Dlarcans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 100,824 Dlarcans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Engineers preemptively order lawyers after every power cut, there's never enough space in space, Casey Stocke has just been declared ruler of Vholbersht in an international press conference, and the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region. Crime is totally unknown. Vholbersht's national animal is the Giant Weta, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vholbersht is ranked 13,843^rd in the world and 327^th in the Pacific for Safest, scoring 117.49 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.