The Federation of Khardsland is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by National Worker's Council with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, infamous sell-swords, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.019 billion Khardslanders 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.

The enormous, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Petershaven. The average income tax rate is 87.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Khardslander economy, worth 460 trillion khards 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 Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 114,642 khards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses, national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys', crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens, and the sick and dying are locked in their homes with a red "X" painted on the front door. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Khardsland's national animal is the altergeisse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Khardsland is ranked 49,951^st in the world and 403^rd in The Communist Bloc for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 5,441.29 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.