The Community of Haikustan is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons and absence of drug laws. The democratic, devout population of 18.209 billion Haikustanies are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 31.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Haikustany economy, worth 527 trillion haiku poem glories a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 28,971 haiku poem glories, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and the government is reining in public spending. Crime is almost non-existent. Haikustan's national animal is the haiku-screaming parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Haikustan is ranked 101,866^th in the world and 10^th in Haiku for Most Primitive, scoring -17.89 on the Scary Big Number Scale.