The United Socialist States of The Vooperian Union is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Isla Stewart with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.911 billion Vooperians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nuprolat. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vooperian economy, worth 360 trillion tokens of purchase a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 123,756 tokens of purchase, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, people are raising their middle finger to non-digital currencies, and excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside. Crime is totally unknown. The Vooperian Union's national animal is the red-tailed hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Vooperian Union is ranked 10,255^th in the world and 18^th in Anarchy for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 11,053.93 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.