The Forsaken of Vara 148 is a titanic, orderly nation, notable for its national health service, frequent executions, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.715 billion Vara 148ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vara 148ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,896 trillion bitcoins 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. 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 amazing 247,259 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sex changes are routinely performed at Vara 148's hospitals, prosecutors are tucked into bed by the household police officer, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, and livestock mutilations are on the rise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vara 148's national animal is the squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vara 148 is ranked 52,038^th in the world and 122^nd in Eye for Largest Populations, with 11.7 billion capita.