The Dark Sun Empire of Varhemia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Empress Ocultia with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, digital currency, and public floggings. The compassionate, devout population of 10.025 billion Varhemians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dust City. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Varhemian economy, worth a remarkable 1,106 trillion Varns 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 impressive 110,349 Varns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Humble workers tempt fate for a taste of airline caviar, children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers, when conspiracy theorists talk about "government moles" they're referring to mysteriously mobile skin lesions, and EpiPen sales have skyrocketed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Varhemia's national animal is the Sparrow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Universal Paganism.

Varhemia is ranked 304,072^nd in the world and 4,931^st in The East Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -347.22 on the Scary Big Number Scale.