The Nomadic Peoples of The Vherath is a mid-sized, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 87 million Vherathians 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 large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 65.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Vherathian economy, worth 1.64 trillion Nodals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 18,796 Nodals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One does not simply walk into the tundra, the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, nine-year-olds are discovering that they can grow gardens in real life too, and there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Vherath's national animal is the Pathfinder, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Vherath is ranked 164,204^th in the world and 349^th in Starlight for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 69.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.