The Free Land of Half Drinks is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by mezzodrinker with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, anti-smoking policies, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.584 billion Half Drinkers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Half Drink City. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Half Drunk economy, worth 532 trillion deposit bottles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 116,228 deposit bottles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, The Pipe Bomb Makers' Pop-Up Book can be found in preschool libraries, women have a strange proclivity for dressing up as caped weasels, and government fact-checkers use surprising amounts of high explosive. Crime is totally unknown. Half Drinks's national animal is the catperson, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Half Drinks is ranked 113,623^rd in the world and 3^rd in Fediverse for Largest Populations, with 4.58 billion capita.