The Federation of Veradine is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The United Veradine Assembly with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.704 billion Veradi 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lightsbridge. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Veradi economy, worth a remarkable 1,305 trillion Veradi Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 169,448 Veradi Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, Veradine has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, the banhammer is a standard police sidearm, and celebrities sit helplessly as they are labeled "pompous womples" by The United Veradine Assembly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Veradine's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Veradine is ranked 42,941^st in the world and 60^th in Gay for Most Valuable International Artwork, with zero Bank.