The Free Land of Vantas is a small, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 23 million Vantasians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak Vantasian economy, worth 660 billion Peruvian phalluses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Soda Sales. Average income is 28,715 Peruvian phalluses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is completely gun-free, being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever, election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, and there have been reports of people marrying housepets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vantas's national animal is the crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Vantas is ranked 290,910^th in the world and 4,252^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.14 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.