The Republic of Kate Mullany NHS is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its compulsory military service, anti-smoking policies, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.506 billion Kate Mullany NHSians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kate Mullany NHSian economy, worth 267 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 106,617 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

An underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety, everyone suspects that everyone else is a terrorist, there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety, and fat-shaming is now public policy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kate Mullany NHS's national animal is the NPS, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Kate Mullany NHS is ranked 201,405^th in the world and 3,845^th in the South Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3.35 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.