The Free Land of Half Drinks is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by mezzodrinker with a fair hand, and renowned for its enforced nudity, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.282 billion Half Drinkers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Half Drink City. The average income tax rate is 91.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Half Drunk economy, worth a remarkable 1,233 trillion deposit bottles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 132,929 deposit bottles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Travelers praise airports for their endless beige corridors, the government is spending serious cheddar protecting sewer rats, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, and there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold. Crime is totally unknown. Half Drinks's national animal is the catperson, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Half Drinks is ranked 305,548^th in the world and 4^th in Fediverse for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -25.5 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.