The Federated Bailiwicks of Verdant Haven is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Iskandar Viridi with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.736 billion Havenians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haventia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Verdant Havenian economy, worth a remarkable 3,442 trillion Verdethalers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 270,328 Verdethalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art, any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, people unhook their phones at night to escape a never-ending barrage of phone calls, and unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Verdant Haven's national animal is the Thylacine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Verdant Haven is ranked 290,224^th in the world and 311^th in Forest for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.3 kickbacks per hour.