The Colony of Halsoni 1 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.192 billion Halsoni 1ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 45.2%.

The strong Halsoni 1ian economy, worth 55.6 trillion rubles a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is 46,646 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halsoni 1's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Halsoni 1 is ranked 108,165^th in the world and 443^rd in Europeia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,203.74 on the Gilded Widget Scale.