The High-Technate of Athretvari is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Strategosa Anra Agājio with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 22.444 billion Vari have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ars Scientia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Athretvarian economy, worth an astonishing 15,831 trillion 붇 Athcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is a breathtaking 705,384 붇 Athcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Government officials stay up all night in flame wars with their constituents, more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself, fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, and the police double as repo men. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Athretvari's national animal is the pygmy banshee-berserker cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Scientific Universalism.

Athretvari is ranked 199^th in the world and 1^st in New Coalition of Nations for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 15,162.38 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.