The Embar League City of Volon Therys is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Magister Castig vos Drusella with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 10.648 billion Volon Therens are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Volon Therys. The average income tax rate is 45.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Volon Theren economy, worth 707 trillion kamas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 66,485 kamas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

There are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees her shadow, conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue, using "inspect element" is grounds for espionage charges, and the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Volon Therys's national animal is the alligator, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Vezkelios.

Volon Therys is ranked 43,597^th in the world and 2^nd in Torrezon for Most Beautiful Environments, with 722.1 pounds of wildlife per square mile.