The Most Serene Republic of The Hakurei is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, aversion to nipples, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 603 million Reimuites enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yakumograd. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Hakureian economy, worth 53.4 trillion Mons a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 88,549 Mons, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 532,733 per year while the poor average 6,637, a ratio of 80.3 to 1.

All recreational drugs are legal, books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy, an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat, and teens graduate from front of house retail to the frontlines of war. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. The Hakurei's national animal is the Reimungton 870, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Hakurei is ranked 143,412^th in the world and 2^nd in United fraternal nations of gensokyo for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,702.47 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.