The Socialist Republic of Varagon is a huge, safe nation, notable for its national health service, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 510 million Varagonians, 485 million of whom are zombies, are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vallion. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Varagonian economy, worth 53.5 trillion V-Prisms a year, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,915 V-Prisms, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art, the Federal Council of Varagon has been announced as the new Head of State, trust-fund babies line up for places in community college, and there's an aura of pseudoscience around academia. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Varagon's national animal is the Wavefarer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Varagon is ranked 26,677^th in the world and 16^th in Wintercrest for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,047.13 on the Clooney Contribution Index.