The Silly Democracy of HarlHarl is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.11 billion HarlHarlians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming HarlHarlian economy, worth 99.8 trillion Cheeses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 89,924 Cheeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's family members carry literal get-out-of-jail-free cards, the big red machine has ground to a halt, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, and the government maintains a Department of Skulduggery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HarlHarl's national animal is the Kraken, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

HarlHarl is ranked 24,482^nd in the world and 160^th in Europe for Most Patriotic, with 48.87 flags saluted per person per day.