The Federated Bailiwicks of Verdant Haven is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Iskandar Viridi with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.079 billion Havenians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haventia. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Verdant Havenian economy, worth a remarkable 2,027 trillion Verdethalers a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 201,152 Verdethalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Twelve Steps To Logging Off is the most popular mobile download, artists are pillars of society, grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, and urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Verdant Haven's national animal is the Thylacine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Verdant Haven is ranked 303,219^th in the world and 332^nd in Forest for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 16.53 on the Bus Surprisal Index.