The Rural Community of Halicia is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Librarian-General Alic Mayer with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 4.309 billion Halicians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Knowledge Emporium. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Halician economy, worth 416 trillion halician pfennings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,558 halician pfennings, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 287,580 per year while the poor average 25,400, a ratio of 11.3 to 1.

The Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, business is adjusting to new gender equality policies in the workplace, and owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halicia's national animal is the huskie, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Halicia is ranked 250,287^th in the world and 58^th in Apostolic Farmland for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -6.32 on the Clooney Contribution Index.