The District of Varsey is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by proctor with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 44.315 billion Vartians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Varseyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,975 trillion aurums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 44,572 aurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teenagers are sent to jail for being out too late, Varsey has designated District City as its capital city, Proctor has just been declared ruler of Varsey in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Varsey's national animal is the bovina, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Varsey is ranked 138,678^th in the world and 1^st in Varsey for Most Developed, scoring 57 on the Human Development Index.