The Empire of Hamilcar Barca is a mammoth, orderly nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 8.404 billion Hamilcar Barcans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.9%.

The strong Hamilcar Barcan economy, worth 423 trillion shekels a year, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. Average income is 50,360 shekels, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 268,671 per year while the poor average 4,960, a ratio of 54.2 to 1.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, Harry Potter books are banned, and foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border. Crime is a problem. Hamilcar Barca's national animal is the Horse.

Hamilcar Barca is ranked 238,537^th in the world and 1^st in Carthage for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring zero on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.