The United Republic of Hareya is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.351 billion Hareyans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yatar. The average income tax rate is 64.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Hareyan economy, worth 120 trillion Rals 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is 51,119 Rals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a bright dawn ahead for Hareya, elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, and Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hareya's national animal is the Black-footed Albatross, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Hareya is ranked 302,209^th in the world and 159^th in The Western Isles for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 12.89 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.