The Federation of Hanuria is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 130 million Hanurians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 36.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Hanurian economy, worth 8.86 trillion Hanons a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,158 Hanons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation, cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, and stony-faced ratings board panelists are unamused by free lap dances. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hanuria's national animal is the Red Lizard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hanuria is ranked 43,682^nd in the world and 665^th in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 738.64 pounds of wildlife per square mile.