The Empire of Vesteysia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Auguste with an iron fist, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, disturbing lack of elderly people, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.176 billion Vesteysians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Terhai. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 94.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Vesteysian economy, worth a remarkable 1,630 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 314,969 Credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,021,232 per year while the poor average 73,301, a ratio of 13.9 to 1.

Wanting a better life for your child is prohibited by a clause in the criminal code, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, the studies of art and philosophy are banned, and celebrity foodies are biting a huge chunk out of the government budget. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vesteysia's national animal is the Galaktischenverschlinger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Jormunganity.

Vesteysia is ranked 1,819^th in the world and 41^st in The North Pacific for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 1.02 million Standard Monetary Units.