The Molten Rivers of Venus is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its enforced nudity, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 26.927 billion Venusians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 52.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Venusian economy, worth 657 trillion Therms a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, Soda Sales, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 24,407 Therms, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, public nudity is compulsory, and euthanasia is legal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Venus's national animal is the silicon based lifeform, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Venus is ranked 148,319^th in the world and 11^th in Outer Space for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 628.65 on the Gilded Widget Scale.