The Republic of HUR 2 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 1.992 billion HUR 2ians 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 Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 30.7%.

The strong HUR 2ian economy, worth 104 trillion currencies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,526 currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

The new one currency coin also makes a handy throwing-star, the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, HUR 2 City's back alleys are rife with sausage eating, and citizens must have a license to operate a computer. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HUR 2's national animal is the animal, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

HUR 2 is ranked 324,955^th in the world and 23^rd in The Clans of DYSFUNCTIONAL for Most Patriotic, with 0.64 flags saluted per person per day.