The People's Republic of Halinstan is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory military service, strictly enforced bedtime, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 639 million Halinstanis 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brogograd. The average income tax rate is 82.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Halinstanian economy, worth 67.0 trillion Markoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 104,900 Markoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Blood stains the floors of the execution room and the hands of the state, the government is hungry to spread communism beyond the nation's borders, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, and domestic fishermen fly the Halinstanian flag out of fear of being blown up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halinstan's national animal is the Wolverine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Halinstan is ranked 281,609^th in the world and 14^th in Solidarity for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -8.53 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.