The Federated Bailiwicks of Verdant Haven is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Iskandar Viridi with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.622 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 large, liberal 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 economy, worth a remarkable 3,954 trillion Verdethalers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 290,313 Verdethalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dictionary sales have hit an all-time high, dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, and the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard. 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 40,944^th in the world and 47^th in Forest for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 79.83 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.