The Federal Democratic Republic of Vancovaria is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by YK Milton with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 25.03 billion Vancovarians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vancopolis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Vancovarian economy, worth an astonishing 10,172 trillion vaneroes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 406,416 vaneroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Unemployed school bus drivers photobomb virtual classroom meetings, astronauts take one small step for Vancovaria and one giant step backward from confrontation, there's an aura of pseudoscience around academia, and increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times. Crime is totally unknown. Vancovaria's national animal is the elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vancovaria is ranked 43^rd in the world and 2^nd in The Social Liberal Union for Highest Food Quality, scoring 692.75 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.