The Great Federation of Vaarland is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Eternal Unifier Mirna Urunensen with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.195 billion vaarlandeses 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vaar. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient vaarlandese economy, worth a remarkable 3,836 trillion vaarlandese crowns a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 290,758 vaarlandese crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens select which government department gets their income tax vaarlandese crowns each year, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, and starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta. Crime is totally unknown. Vaarland's national animal is the peacock, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is secularism.

Vaarland is ranked 871^st in the world and 4^th in Calme Ybovien for Most Cultured, scoring 394 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.