The COOPERATIVE of Vivien is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by GENERAL SECRETARY OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE with an iron fist, and notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, aversion to nipples, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.517 billion PEOPLE are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry is also considered important, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of VIVIENGRAD. The average income tax rate is 39.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient PEOPLE economy, worth a remarkable 2,603 trillion REDFLAGS a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 305,677 REDFLAGS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Posters encourage people to "Just Do It!", midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency, the diplomatic corps stinks, and advertisers scramble to sponsor the broadcast of GENERAL SECRETARY OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE's most personal functions. 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. Vivien's national animal is the RAT, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is the opium of the people.

Vivien is ranked 44,840^th in the world and 623^rd in the Pacific for Most World Assembly Endorsements, with zero Valid Endorsements.