The State of Vaseux is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 31.518 billion Vaseuxians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Vaseuxian economy, worth 811 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 25,757 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cars are banned, flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and Vaseux has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vaseux's national animal is the deer.

Vaseux is ranked 91,505^th in the world and 1^st in Botswana for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.96 law-abiding acts per hour.