The Republic of Haugesund NOR is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, devout population of 872 million Haugesund NORians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 45.2%.

The strong Haugesund NORian economy, worth 46.7 trillion Norwegian kroner a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 53,565 Norwegian kroner, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

Aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, tabloids coo over Leader's expected child, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, and the army insists there is nothing gay about men in uniforms rolling in the mud. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Haugesund NOR's national animal is the elk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Haugesund NOR is ranked 92,218^th in the world and 529^th in Aerospace for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,719.89 on the Gilded Widget Scale.