The Border province of Vegaga is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Marquess Santiago Teodoro Vega Padilla with an iron fist, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.968 billion Vegagans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vanguardia. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Vegagan economy, worth a remarkable 3,115 trillion Pesetas a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Woodchip Exports, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an amazing 312,507 Pesetas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,608,211 per year while the poor average 33,168, a ratio of 48.5 to 1.

The police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes, heavily stoned police officers are unsure whether the recent directive to 'clean up the streets' means arresting drug dealers or hosing down the sidewalk, selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork, and the nation's entire cultural heritage is being auctioned off to the rich. Crime is pervasive, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Vegaga's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Vegaga is ranked 314,442^nd in the world and 2^nd in Ozymandias for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -21.66 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.