The Republic of Actor Hale is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, frequent executions, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.011 billion Actor Haleans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 33.5%.

The all-consuming Actor Halean economy, worth 783 trillion silvers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 111,772 silvers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Kilts and cassocks are viewed with suspicion, the trail of chickpeas is a controversial part of middle school curriculum, the urban poor thumbs down the new hitchhiking ban, and animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Actor Hale's national animal is the monkey, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Actor Hale is ranked 28,960^th in the world and 279^th in junk for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 28,103.59 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.