The Republic of HUR 5 is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working population of 1.679 billion HUR 5ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.7%.

The strong HUR 5ian economy, worth 83.9 trillion currencies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 49,980 currencies, with the richest citizens earning 6.1 times as much as the poorest.

Escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', dessert dishes make up the HUR 5ian breakfast menu, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, and hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in HUR 5's many privately-owned prisons. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HUR 5's national animal is the animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

HUR 5 is ranked 230,871^st in the world and 4,561^st in the Rejected Realms for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -1.41 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.