The Kingdom of Veneite is a large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its national health service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 159 million Veneions have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Veneitean economy, worth 9.68 trillion weptishes a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 60,888 weptishes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bins outnumber trees in city parks, there is no other place with more lab coats per square mile than former houses of worship, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Veneite City Natural History Museum, and the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Veneite's national animal is the Greenland shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Veneite is ranked 296,792^nd in the world and 196^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Populations, with 159 million capita.