The Federal Republic of The Commonwealth of hell is a large, efficient nation, notable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 105 million Vvitches are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.2%.

The very strong Vvitch economy, worth 6.38 trillion rallod lanrefnIs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is 60,754 rallod lanrefnIs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 301,913 per year while the poor average 6,914, a ratio of 43.7 to 1.

Surgical tape has taken on a distinctly red color, viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, Vvitches firmly believe that their heroes never farted or popped their pimples, and the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Commonwealth of hell's national animal is the Familiars, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Commonwealth of hell is ranked 106,050^th in the world and 19^th in United States of America for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 92.47 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.