The Empress of Matsubara Hiroe is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Matsubara Hiroe with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.282 billion Matsubara Hiroeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokyo. The average income tax rate is 55.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Matsubara Hiroean economy, worth 363 trillion yen a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 68,725 yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing, 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Matsubara Hiroe's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Matsubara Hiroe is ranked 123,061^st in the world and 1^st in Great Empire of Japan for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,602.47 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.