The Department of Haut-Rhin is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Charles Buttner with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 28.085 billion Haut-Rhinoises are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government prioritizes Law & Order, although Defense, Education, and Spirituality are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Colmar. The average income tax rate is 40.1%.

The strong Haut-Rhinois economy, worth a remarkable 1,891 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,361 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

Wanting a better life for your child is prohibited by a clause in the criminal code, referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in Haut-Rhin, and money grows on trees. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Haut-Rhin's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Haut-Rhin is ranked 64,187^th in the world and 6^th in Department Store for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 4,423.03 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.