The Republic of Suvarnavarta is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 215 million Suvarnans 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 24.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Suvarnan economy, worth 21.2 trillion rūpyas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 98,820 rūpyas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls, it is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, and the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains. Crime is almost non-existent. Suvarnavarta's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Suvarnavarta is ranked 40,085^th in the world and 1,365^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 177.37 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.