The Republic of Assorted Hag Number 4 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, public floggings, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.339 billion Assorted Hag Number 4ians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Assorted Hag Number 4ian economy, worth 711 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 133,295 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 401,084 per year while the poor average 34,558, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in, parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife, the Gallery of Amusing Cat Photographs is the most popular museum in the country, and stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded Assorted Hag Number 4 to disarm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Assorted Hag Number 4's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Assorted Hag Number 4 is ranked 26,079^th in the world and 169^th in Eye for Lowest Crime Rates, with 85.2 law-abiding acts per hour.