The Community of Vertumna is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 631 million Vertumnans 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 84.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Vertumnan economy, worth 60.0 trillion credits 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 Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 95,039 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The streets are ravaged by murder and violence to prove political points, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, Leader's Twitcher account is typically used to share Meerkat memes rather than government policy, and bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of. Crime is totally unknown. Vertumna's national animal is the Meerkat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vertumna is ranked 319,907^th in the world and 464^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.62 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.