The Hateful of Varanius is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Vauron with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, vat-grown people, and national health service. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 11.026 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, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zygotia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Entitian economy, worth a remarkable 2,928 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 265,570 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sheepish teenagers are making eye contact with their parents for the first time in a decade during state-enforced 'no-phones hour', a new apartment is worth a thousand betrayals, drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, and prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded 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 Ego-Varaism.

Varanius is ranked 305,538^th in the world and 3,599^th in the West Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with zero Standard Monetary Units.