The Republic of Verdant Groves is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.053 billion Verdant Grovesians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hilo. The average income tax rate is 91.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Verdant Grovesian economy, worth 478 trillion Kukuis 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 156,805 Kukuis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming, one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Verdant Groves's national animal is the Pueo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Aloha Aina.

Verdant Groves is ranked 5,064^th in the world and 84^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 561.4 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.