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The Empire of Vintrel is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 625 million Vintrellis are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roccataleno. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.6%.

The thriving Vintrelli economy, worth 49.7 trillion orpes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 79,523 orpes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 254,793 per year while the poor average 18,832, a ratio of 13.5 to 1.

The nation is known abroad for fast food and nothing else, the nation is infamous for its mass graves of discarded robots, quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, and Vintrel has designated Roccataleno as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Vintrel's national animal is the dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Vintrel is ranked 146,181^st in the world and 58^th in Starlight for Most Patriotic, with 13.33 flags saluted per person per day.