The Free Land of Vir Cotto is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, democratic population of 4.258 billion Vir Cottoans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.8%.

The strong Vir Cottoan economy, worth 281 trillion tenacities a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 66,095 tenacities, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 250,348 per year while the poor average 12,125, a ratio of 20.6 to 1.

Space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space, Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Vir Cotto City to enjoy their national art, former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone, and street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vir Cotto's national animal is the Head, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vir Cotto is ranked 50,650^th in the world and 1^st in The Babylon 5 Universe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 683.34 pounds of wildlife per square mile.