The Free Land of Verum Ingenium is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ashton with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.7 billion Verum Ingenians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Verum. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Verum Ingeniumian economy, worth 561 trillion Mynets a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 98,434 Mynets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Treaties are taken to be mere rules of thumb, government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest, a shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's, and dreams of entering the Super League have been relegated to the history books. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Verum Ingenium's national animal is the Crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is None.

Verum Ingenium is ranked 45,239^th in the world and 1,486^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.69 law-abiding acts per hour.