The Republic of Happy End of the World is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 5.053 billion Happy End of the Worldians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.1%.

The strong Happy End of the Worldian economy, worth 320 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,392 marks, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

Immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, and boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Happy End of the World's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Happy End of the World is ranked 140,672^nd in the world and 1,506^th in Artificial Solar System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.77 law-abiding acts per hour.