The Principality of Veritas is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Lacum Magister with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, parental licensing program, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.69 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 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Veritasian economy, worth 335 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 91,022 Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Freedom is never freely given — only when the alternative is too expensive, physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, state-sanctioned torture is okay so long as there's no icky blood, and the question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression. 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 211,875^th in the world and 5,558^th in the Rejected Realms for Safest, scoring 31.87 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.