The Public State of Havl is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Captain Steve Dublowski with a fair hand, and notable for its parental licensing program, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 47.425 billion Havlans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Havliah economy, worth a remarkable 7,246 trillion dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 152,799 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians tend to speak more loudly and slowly these days, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, for some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate, and the steaks are too high for ambassadors to butcher foreign relationships. Crime is totally unknown. Havl's national animal is the erne, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Havl is ranked 20,839^th in the world and 1^st in South Eastern North West for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 302.61 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.