The Republic of H2nao is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, parental licensing program, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 2.016 billion H2naoans 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 Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 65.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient H2naoan economy, worth 201 trillion second best currencies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 100,048 second best currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Debate rages over whether ground fish guts can be spread on fields, cults that offer eternal life after death to those who follow a self-sacrificing saviour are frowned upon, concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule, and religious households enthusiastically use whips in private. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. H2nao's national animal is the two, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

H2nao is ranked 25,166^th in the world and 2,517^th in Two for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,312.54 on the Gilded Widget Scale.