The Dominion of The Virconian Combine is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 35.776 billion Virconians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Virconia. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Virconian Combinean economy, worth a remarkable 2,433 trillion vircos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 68,018 vircos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, the government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights, and retail stores offer sales every hour on the hour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Virconian Combine's national animal is the snarlax, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is some minor religion.

The Virconian Combine is ranked 11,661^st in the world and 1^st in A New World for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,445.84 pounds of wildlife per square mile.