The Glistening Decadence of Varanius is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Vara the Horreinous with an even hand, and notable for its digital currency, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 6.048 billion Newborns are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zygotia. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Newly Born economy, worth 963 trillion Inflated Cards 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 impressive 159,337 Inflated Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration, intoxicated AI mobile platforms are sometimes seen crashing through windows instead of being crashed by them, brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods, and sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Varanius's national animal is the Jarlic Monstrosity, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Big Book of Questions.

Varanius is ranked 3,499^th in the world and 70^th in the West Pacific for Healthiest Citizens, with 22.94 bananas ingested per day.