The Republic of Harceordia is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 1.25 billion Harceordians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.0%.

The strong Harceordian economy, worth 105 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 84,101 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 245,693 per year while the poor average 22,733, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

Government officials frown on anything more technologically advanced than an abacus, defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, and phone taps are frequently carried out by the police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Harceordia's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Harceordia is ranked 90,002^nd in the world and 4,427^th in Lazarus for Most Beautiful Environments, with 579.82 pounds of wildlife per square mile.