The Eternal Moment of Varanius is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jeremy Wickwire with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, infamous sell-swords, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 15.175 billion Entities are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Panopticon. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Entitian economy, worth a remarkable 4,996 trillion Jarlic Jewels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 329,284 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

National park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, all Entities live like kings, people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations, and it is against the rules of boxing to hit above or below the belt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Varanius's national animal is the Thing, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Varanius is ranked 307,736^th in the world and 2,666^th in the West Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 0.93 Obesity Rate.