The Republic of Hartlan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its smutty television, vat-grown people, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.897 billion Hartlanians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leopard City. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hartlanian economy, worth 321 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 169,444 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Athletic teenagers are among the wealthiest members of society, surveillance cameras are banned, octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it, and smoking is banned in public areas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Hartlan's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hartlan is ranked 26,373^rd in the world and 284^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 4,211.6 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.