The Imperium of Vernii is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Edward Calimar with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 45.304 billion Verniians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cardona. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Verniian economy, worth a remarkable 6,863 trillion solaris a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 151,493 solaris, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 472,488 per year while the poor average 37,307, a ratio of 12.7 to 1.

Birth rates have hit an all-time low, citizens have to dodge their neighbor's drones while getting the morning paper, EpiPen sales have skyrocketed, and the government's suicide hotline now redirects callers to local tax lawyers. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Vernii's national animal is the tree cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vernii is ranked 250,280^th in the world and 3^rd in Raumreich Oversector for Lowest Crime Rates, with 51.84 law-abiding acts per hour.