The Republic of HJT281 is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, disturbing lack of elderly people, and strictly enforced bedtime. The devout population of 1.543 billion HJT281ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient HJT281ian economy, worth 46.3 trillion liberatuses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,030 liberatuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts, and students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HJT281's national animal is the griffin, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

HJT281 is ranked 116,065^th in the world and 6,012^th in Lazarus for Highest Poor Incomes, with 26,461.17 Standard Monetary Units.