The Whirling Derwishes of Halicarnassos is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Some One with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 34.299 billion Halicarnassosians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bodrum. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Halicarnassosian economy, worth a remarkable 7,798 trillion Golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 227,368 Golds, with the richest citizens earning 9.7 times as much as the poorest.

Trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter, and school football matches are usually five-a-side. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halicarnassos's national animal is the Herodotos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Banjectism.

Halicarnassos is ranked 18,386^th in the world and 1,198^th in Lazarus for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,082.25 pounds of wildlife per square mile.