The Confederacy of Vargr Corsairs is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Florence Ambrose with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, unlimited-speed roads, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 35.229 billion Vargr Corsairsians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lair Family Fun Center. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Vargr Corsairsian economy, worth an astonishing 15,218 trillion Fangs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 431,990 Fangs, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,487,107 per year while the poor average 35,963, a ratio of 69.2 to 1.

Families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs, the Hamster has a hungry look, the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong, and laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Vargr Corsairs's national animal is the Hamster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Vargr Corsairs is ranked 135^th in the world and 1^st in Firefly for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 42,561.22 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.