The Empire of the Rising Sun of Haruhi Japan is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Empress of the Sun with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, national health service, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 9.919 billion Japanese are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neo Tokyo Palace City. The average income tax rate is 83.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Japanese economy, worth a remarkable 4,833 trillion Imperial yen 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 487,268 Imperial yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Japanese believe manners maketh the leader, physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, the judicial branch is strongly influenced by the Communist Party, and prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls. 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 green pheasant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Shintoism.

Haruhi Japan is ranked 291,784^th in the world and 30^th in The Vincence Empire for Nicest Citizens, with 0.16 average smiles per day.