The Republic of Ventusky is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Leo Fontana with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.418 billion Ventuskians 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 large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vanculia. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Ventuskian economy, worth 256 trillion coronas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 106,033 coronas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, the threat of economic apocalypse brings out the best in people, in distant lands the nation is known as a lovely place that was even better in the good old days, and the state considers itself the 'third parent' of every child in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ventusky's national animal is the arctic fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ventusky is ranked 297,421^st in the world and 4,147^th in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.66 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.