The Varanian Virtue of Vitriol is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its closed borders, rum-swilling pirates, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.943 billion Vitriolians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Vitriolian economy, worth 853 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 143,644 rubles, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 585,965 per year while the poor average 23,345, a ratio of 25.1 to 1.

Jaw strain is an increasingly common ailment, tweenage nobles order army regiments to do their homework for them, scientific ethics are on the chopping block, and prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vitriol's national animal is the crocodile, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Vitriol is ranked 49,224^th in the world and 2^nd in Spite and Vitriol for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.94 law-abiding acts per hour.