The Federation of Veradine is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The United Veradine Assembly with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.735 billion Veradi are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Veradi economy, worth a remarkable 1,313 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 169,781 Veradi Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, Veradi incessantly needle their doctors for relief, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, and every citizen sounds like a television news anchor. 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 3,684^th in the world and 19^th in Gay for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 17,040.56 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.