The White Visitation of Varanius is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Jeremy Wickwire with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, state-planned economy, and labour-free parental leave. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 15.314 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, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Panopticon. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Entitian economy, worth a remarkable 5,071 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 331,170 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Designer clothespin sales are skyrocketing, citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint, Entities ask their doctors whether chili peppers are right for them, and Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive 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 Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Varanius is ranked 332,678^th in the world and 2,692^nd in the West Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with zero Standard Monetary Units.