The Island Empire of Vanartua is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Jackson Smitherson with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.192 billion Vanartuans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vana. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Vanartuan economy, worth 77.2 trillion deniers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,239 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jackson Smitherson can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees, jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, and factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vanartua's national animal is the seagull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Atheism.

Vanartua is ranked 263,244^th in the world and 130^th in United Democratic Nations for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,134.68 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.