The Commonwealth of Virginia Isles is a small, genial nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 23 million Virginia Islanders 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Virginian economy, worth 344 billion Wampum dollars 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 14,994 Wampum dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, calls to prayer are the newest dog whistles, the weather in Virginia Isles City is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings', and telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Virginia Isles's national animal is the Blue crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Virginia Isles is ranked 295,088^th in the world and 1,335^th in Europeia for Most Developed, scoring 46.48 on the Human Development Index.