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 ubiquitous missile silos, complete lack of prisons, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.596 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 97.2%.

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 228,343 IOU Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Sections of the police receive paramilitary training, 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, and every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government. Crime is totally unknown. 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 6,002^nd in the world and 156^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 11,434.09 on the Gilded Widget Scale.