The Federated Bailiwicks of Verdant Haven is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Iskandar Viridi with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.584 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 3,934 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 289,619 Verdethalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The number of students attending university has reached a record high, people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, Iskandar Viridi can finally stop kneading the dough and start rolling in it instead, and it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven. 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 144^th in the world and 10^th in Forest for Most Beautiful Environments, with 9,608.28 pounds of wildlife per square mile.