The Incorporated States of Vrakenalk is a tiny, efficient nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 8 million Vrakenalkites are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The thriving Vrakenalkite economy, worth 538 billion Kroner a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 67,372 Kroner, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 329,683 per year while the poor average 7,900, a ratio of 41.7 to 1.

The country is littered with broken homes, Vrakenalkites believe the only thing that will make you happy is being unhappy with who you are, the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence, and the government is often referred to as "the biggest drug dealer in the nation". Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Vrakenalk's national animal is the Marsh Crawlers, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vrakenalk is ranked 227,853^rd in the world and 7,200^th in The East Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 2.40 billion Standard Monetary Units.