The Total Peace of Halka II is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Tharn with a fair hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 11.056 billion Halkans 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Halka II City. The average income tax rate is 81.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Halkan economy, worth 232 trillion Federation Credits a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 21,036 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, and newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halka II's national animal is the Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Halka II is ranked 50,614^th in the world and 18^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Largest Governments, scoring 22.32 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.