The Department of Var is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Jean-Luc Videlaine with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 13.73 billion Varois 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 relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Toulon. The average income tax rate is 14.3%.

The strong Varois economy, worth 908 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Retail, Pizza Delivery, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 66,140 francs, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers, unpopular scientists are shunned by name, and gambling is outlawed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Var's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Var is ranked 47,521^st in the world and 3^rd in Department Store for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.