The People's Republic of Halinstan is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Revolutionary Hero with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, keen interest in outer space, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 759 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 82.9%.

The all-consuming Halinstanian economy, worth 93.7 trillion Markoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is an impressive 123,461 Markoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas", NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, and citizens know not to ask what their country can do for them but what they can do as chained slaves for their country. 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 276,028^th in the world and 20^th in Solidarity for Least Corrupt Governments, with 74.55 percentage of bribes refused.