The White Visitation of Varanius is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Jeremy Wickwire with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 15.368 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 5,113 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 332,717 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Entitian justice, the nation is the West Pacific's leading manufacturer of intricately-patterned sweaters, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and sections of the police receive paramilitary training. 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 69^th in the world and 1^st in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 310.63 law-abiding acts per hour.