The Eternal Moment of Varanius is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Jeremy Wickwire with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 15.18 billion Entities are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Panopticon. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Entitian economy, worth a remarkable 5,001 trillion Jarlic Jewels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 329,475 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most pop videos prominently feature the Entitian flag, the well-to-do in the West Pacific are never on time for important appointments, heart attack victims are thrown onto the rails, and professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Varanius's national animal is the Thing, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Varanius is ranked 168^th in the world and 4^th in the West Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 100.11 on the Human Development Index.