The Principality of Veritas is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Lacum Magister with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, rampant corporate plagiarism, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.572 billion Veritasians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vosti. The average income tax rate is 85.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Veritasian economy, worth 327 trillion Coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 91,560 Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

East Lebatuckese luxury goods are plundered by the working class of Veritas, the derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun, the nation's WA representatives have received a very public sacking after Veritas allowed its WA membership to lapse, and those who investigate UFOs tend to wake up delirious on abandoned roads. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Veritas's national animal is the Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Bloodstone Worship.

Veritas is ranked 43,476^th in the world and 1,142^nd in the Rejected Realms for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,422.53 on the Gilded Widget Scale.