The Rogue Nation of Quarij is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, vat-grown people, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic population of 286 million Quarijians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jirauq. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Quarijian economy, worth 10.2 trillion gHjs 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. 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 35,800 gHjs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide, suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe, Quarij has designated Jirauq as its capital city, and woefully uninformed voters cast their ballots at random. Crime is totally unknown. Quarij's national animal is the scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quarij is ranked 189,161^st in the world and 214^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.