The Minecraft River Valley of A Salmon Named Harold is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Harold with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.699 billion Salmonns are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Central Hub. The average income tax rate is 85.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Salmonn economy, worth 230 trillion IOU Cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,534 IOU Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork, "Idol-Worship for the Apathetic" workshops are cancelled when no-one bothers to show up, the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Salmon Named Harold's national animal is the Salmon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is the questioning of oatmeal.

A Salmon Named Harold is ranked 17,055^th in the world and 787^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,487.79 on the Societal Mobility Rating.