The Republic of Vara 13 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.148 billion Vara 13ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Vara 13ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,353 trillion Object Permanences a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 189,301 Object Permanences, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 576,521 per year while the poor average 48,240, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Sanitary products are sold in brown paper at hairdressers' salons, grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths, sofas are perpetually on sales that Must End Soon, and children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Vara 13's national animal is the Question Mark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vara 13 is ranked 18,458^th in the world and 10^th in Eye for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 69,662.91 Standard Monetary Units.