The Free Land of Halaziaa is a small, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working population of 40 million Halaziaans 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 12.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Halaziaan economy, worth 1.68 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,975 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

City budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty, students abandon classrooms for online education, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, and all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Halaziaa's national animal is the wolf.

Halaziaa is ranked 90,557^th in the world and 1,876^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 91.1 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.