The Empire of Halo Nova is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Halo Nova with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 10.872 billion Halo Novans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mysty. The average income tax rate is 58.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Halo Novan economy, worth 992 trillion Solars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 91,248 Solars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The government funds large training centres to turn Lions into functioning members of society, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, and the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Halo Nova's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Halo Nova is ranked 48,350^th in the world and 3,046^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 74.66 law-abiding acts per hour.