The Forsaken of Vara 128 is a titanic, cultured nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, aversion to nipples, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.628 billion Vara 128ians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Vara 128ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,607 trillion florins a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 224,254 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named", obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, the government is chasing the gold at the end of the rainbow, and the drive to dismantle public transport has crashed and burned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vara 128's national animal is the giraffe, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vara 128 is ranked 300,960^th in the world and 2,603^rd in Eye for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -12.27 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.