The Federated Bailiwicks of Verdant Haven is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Iskandar Viridi with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.611 billion Havenians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haventia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Verdant economy, worth a remarkable 3,943 trillion Verdethalers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 289,751 Verdethalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, sex changes are routinely performed at Verdant Haven's hospitals, and science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Verdant Haven's national animal is the Thylacine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Verdant Haven is ranked 305,012^th in the world and 297^th in Forest for Highest Disposable Incomes, with zero Standard Monetary Units.