The Commonwealth of New Varchi is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Rory Doo with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, public floggings, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.147 billion New Varchians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Animalia. The average income tax rate is 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong New Varchian economy, worth 265 trillion Paws a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 64,017 Paws, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Some people will do literally anything to be in the spotlight, 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, and the Nova Animalia Women's Prison Choir now has a baritone section. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Varchi's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Varchi is ranked 256,079^th in the world and 858^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Primitive, scoring -173.23 on the Scary Big Number Scale.