The State of HBR is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Ayame Misaki with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 3.593 billion HBRians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 한보름. The average income tax rate is 25.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient HBRian economy, worth 700 trillion Ruxukous 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 194,989 Ruxukous, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

It takes a nation to change a light bulb, cash-strapped HBRians scour their bodies for fortuitous zits, adding salt and pepper to food is enough to raise suspicion of treason, and garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. HBR's national animal is the Fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ladies'.

HBR is ranked 200,559^th in the world and 45^th in Japan for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 296.88 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.