The Republic of HJT489 is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-working population of 929 million HJT489ians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.1%.

The thriving HJT489ian economy, worth 50.7 trillion liberatuses a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Trout Farming. Average income is 54,590 liberatuses, with the richest citizens earning 8.2 times as much as the poorest.

Collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes, virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, and obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HJT489's national animal is the griffin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

HJT489 is ranked 97,026^th in the world and 5,031^st in Osiris for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,551.11 on the Gilded Widget Scale.