The Rogue Nation of Quarij is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 254 million Quarijians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 65.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Quarijian economy, worth 7.85 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 30,890 gHjs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pedal-powered removal vans are a popular Maxxmas gift for the children of separated parents, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Quarij City, and billions of gHjs are being poured into a space program. Crime is totally unknown. Quarij's national animal is the scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quarij is ranked 134,635^th in the world and 191^st in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 752.29 on the Gilded Widget Scale.