The Rogue Nation of Quarij is a very large, genial nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, vat-grown people, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic population of 198 million Quarijians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 65.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Quarijian economy, worth 6.09 trillion gHjs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 30,755 gHjs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow, debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, and pedal-powered removal vans are a popular Maxxmas gift for the children of separated parents. Crime is totally unknown. Quarij's national animal is the scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quarij is ranked 213,491^st in the world and 216^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.58 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.