The Watchfires of Hart-1 is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its digital currency, soft-spoken computers, and suspicion of poets. The devout population of 21.594 billion Hart-1ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 23.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Hart-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,361 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 63,059 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners, truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon, replacement organs are grown in vats, and stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Hart-1's national animal is the Death's-head hawkmoth, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Hart-1 is ranked 34,355^th in the world and 1^st in Hartford for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,467.35 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.