The People's Jamahiriya of Herzliyya is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by the Herzliyyan People's Vanguard with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 36.655 billion Herzliyyans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Verda Urbo. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The all-consuming Herzliyyan economy, worth a remarkable 6,193 trillion herzls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 168,966 herzls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Therapists can always squeeze in another house-call, when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming, in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, and pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Herzliyya's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Herzliyya is ranked 1,195^th in the world and 49^th in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 33,245.18 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.