The Guardian State of Hashishin is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Old Man with a fair hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 10.55 billion Assassins enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alamut Castle. The average income tax rate is 56.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Hashishinian economy, worth 908 trillion Daggers a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,143 Daggers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium, children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and Hashishin successfully hosted the the Plains of Perdition Olympics. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Hashishin's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Order of Assassins.

Hashishin is ranked 13,386^th in the world and 21^st in the Plains of Perdition for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 9,722.33 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.