The Republic of Hamchatka is a very large, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 398 million Hamchatkans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and International Aid. The average income tax rate is 54.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Hamchatkan economy, worth 10.4 trillion Massijes a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,023 Massijes, 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, surveillance cameras are banned, a shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's, and kindhearted Hamchatkans generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hamchatka's national animal is the Bison.

Hamchatka is ranked 256,420^th in the world and 392^nd in Starlight for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.8 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.