The Protectorate of AtaHana is a large, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 156 million AtaHanans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 50.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped AtaHanan economy, worth 4.41 trillion fireworks 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 black market in Book Publishing, Retail, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, 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 28,262 fireworks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, and people find it hard to relate to soldiers because of the dehumanising masks they wear. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. AtaHana's national animal is the wisp, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

AtaHana is ranked 294,009^th in the world and 1^st in Genshisei for Largest Populations, with 156 million capita.