The Kingdom of Hjorleifsson is a huge, genial nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 661 million Hjorleifssonians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 31.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Hjorleifssonian economy, worth 22.8 trillion Golden Thurids a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,443 Golden Thurids, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's reinforced coffee tables are constructed to survive an atomic blast, family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, and home renovation projects take decades to complete. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hjorleifsson's national animal is the Red deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Hjorleifsson is ranked 194,167^th in the world and 186^th in Karma for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 315.16 on the Gilded Widget Scale.