The White Visitation of Varanius is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Jeremy Wickwire with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 15.268 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 5,046 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 330,496 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Distant and obscure male relatives succeed to the Entitian throne, aides are afraid to ask if Jeremy Wickwire wants a cup of tea or coffee, it isn't a secret plot without caviar and foie gras, and pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security. 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 610^th in the world and 17^th in the West Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 106.62 average smiles per day.