The Sultanate of Verska is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Hikmet Fatih with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.304 billion Verskans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gelişmiş Başkent. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Verskan economy, worth 189 trillion Akçes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 82,106 Akçes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles', parking's carefree without parking car fees, lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', and the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Verska's national animal is the Sand Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Verska is ranked 68,126^th in the world and 77^th in The Western Isles for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.99 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.