The More Surveillance Than State of Varanius is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Vauron with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 10.105 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, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zygotia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Entitian economy, worth a remarkable 2,510 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 248,464 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Engineers preemptively order lawyers after every power cut, Vauron is in a committed monogamous relationship with a huge number of people, supervisors in Varanius commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, and a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded 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 Ego-Varaism.

Varanius is ranked 290,072^nd in the world and 3,702^nd in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -26.77 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.