The Machine Empire of Haruhi Japan is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The Overseer with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.745 billion Machines are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Machintopia. The average income tax rate is 60.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Machinery economy, worth a remarkable 2,189 trillion dark energons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 381,141 dark energons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise, politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them, revolutionaries only deal in CyanCatCoin, and the government is engaging in an agricultural trade war with Maxtopia. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Haruhi Japan's national animal is the robot hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Church of Machine.

Haruhi Japan is ranked 202,569^th in the world and 109^th in Institute of Cellulose for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.93 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.