The Federated Bailiwicks of Verdant Haven is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Iskandar Viridi with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, smutty television, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.849 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Administration. 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 2,942 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 248,300 Verdethalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, doctors spend more time writing sick notes than caring for the sick, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, and children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia. 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 261,049^th in the world and 264^th in Forest for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -7.9 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.