The Republic of Hanzawa Yurine is a small, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 23 million Hanzawa Yurineans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 17.1%.

The strong Hanzawa Yurinean economy, worth 1.34 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Retail. Average income is 58,089 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up, schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, and children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife. Crime is well under control. Hanzawa Yurine's national animal is the hermit crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Hanzawa Yurine is ranked 77,891^st in the world and 1,098^th in Herta Space Station for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 100.75 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.