The Halidom of Veristal is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Sourix Ner Aetheres with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, prohibition of alcohol, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 8.618 billion Veristalites love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valor. The average income tax rate is 81.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Veristalitian economy, worth 526 trillion crysts a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 61,071 crysts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Under love's heavy burden Sourix Ner Aetheres sinks lower in the political right's esteem, foreign powers often deal with problems that Veristal can't handle, the best defense is a good fence, and refugees from other nations are flocking to Veristal's border. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Veristal's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Orthodox Luxism.

Veristal is ranked 175,859^th in the world and 50^th in Eientei Gensokyo for Most Primitive, scoring -68.19 on the Scary Big Number Scale.