The Minecraft River Valley of A Salmon Named Harold is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Harold with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.397 billion pineapple pizza enjoyers 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of a comically large fish bowl. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient pineapple pizza enjoyer economy, worth 785 trillion IOU Cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 178,588 IOU Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Celebrities sit helplessly as they are labeled "pompous womples" by Harold, all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers, preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, and grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps. Crime is totally unknown. A Salmon Named Harold's national animal is the Salmon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is the questioning of string cheese.

A Salmon Named Harold is ranked 2,319^th in the world and 141^st in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 730.06 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.