The Forsaken of Vara 7 is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory vegetarianism, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 12.55 billion Vara 7ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Vara 7ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,845 trillion Object Permanences a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 226,716 Object Permanences, with the richest citizens earning 8.5 times as much as the poorest.

Black tea is only available on the black market, homeless people dying of starvation are thought to be a necessary cost of preventing terrorism, people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support Leader, and the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vara 7's national animal is the Question Mark, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vara 7 is ranked 10,498^th in the world and 7^th in Eye for Smartest Citizens, with 93.19 quips per hour.