The High-Technate of Athretvari is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, digital currency, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 26.026 billion Vari enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ars Scientia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Athretvarian economy, worth an astonishing 20,034 trillion Athcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is a breathtaking 769,799 Athcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside, major cities are suffering under water rationing, primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit, and the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Athretvari's national animal is the pygmy berserker-cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Scientific Universalism.

Athretvari is ranked 36^th in the world and 1^st in New Coalition of Nations for Lowest Crime Rates, with 341.55 law-abiding acts per hour.