The Matriarchy of Hardins is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 8.698 billion hardins are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Hardinsian economy, worth 397 trillion lacklands a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,725 lacklands, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios, hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal, cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, and Leader can cry on demand. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hardins's national animal is the manatee, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is mother nature.

Hardins is ranked 73,695^th in the world and 186^th in Forest for Lowest Crime Rates, with 69.51 law-abiding acts per hour.