The Mikulight of Vintrel is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its national health service, ubiquitous missile silos, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.156 billion Vintrelli are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roccataleno. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.4%.

The thriving Vintrelli economy, worth 407 trillion uans a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 98,032 uans, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 323,603 per year while the poor average 22,218, a ratio of 14.6 to 1.

People eagerly queue days at A&E to wait for their free healthcare, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, and fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vintrel's national animal is the crow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Vintrel is ranked 82,320^th in the world and 91^st in Starlight for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 7,761.64 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.