The White Visitation of Varanius is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jeremy Wickwire with an iron fist, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, prohibition of alcohol, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 15.236 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 5,033 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 330,384 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country, Maxtopian villagers starve by the time Entitian officials even file the appropriate paperwork needed to help them, and art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat. 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 331,434^th in the world and 2,709^th in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -32.73 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.