The Rogue Nation of The Technocratic Republic of Vinland is a small, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 20 million Vinlandians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 12.9%.

The Vinlandian economy, worth 1.07 trillion buckazoids a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 53,741 buckazoids, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment, counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and for some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate. Crime is relatively low. The Technocratic Republic of Vinland's national animal is the slamhound, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Technocratic Republic of Vinland is ranked 74,335^th in the world and 122^nd in Nordic Lands for Most Patriotic, with 18.9 flags saluted per person per day.