The Minecraft River Valley of A Salmon Named Harold is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Harold with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.622 billion pineapple pizza enjoyers enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of a comically large fish bowl. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient pineapple pizza enjoyer economy, worth a remarkable 1,962 trillion IOU Cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 227,629 IOU Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, it's harder to qualify for IVF than for a good university, every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, and census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Salmon Named Harold's national animal is the Salmon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the questioning of string cheese.

A Salmon Named Harold is ranked 1,586^th in the world and 56^th in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 73.64 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.