The Republic of Holaund is a mammoth, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 9.346 billion Holaundians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.2%.

The very strong Holaundian economy, worth 591 trillion bitcoins a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Gambling. Average income is 63,243 bitcoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 204,394 per year while the poor average 14,788, a ratio of 13.8 to 1.

Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Holaund's national animal is the giraffe, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Holaund is ranked 272,046^th in the world and 4,286^th in The catholic military orders for Largest Governments, scoring 6.93 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.