The White Visitation of Varanius is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jeremy Wickwire with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 15.219 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 5,033 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 330,726 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Achieving blood purity involves a surprising amount of bloodshed, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Thingball fields, AI citizens are criticized for being robotic, and political activists are routinely executed. 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 2,258^th in the world and 30^th in the West Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 330,726.38 Standard Monetary Units.