The Holy Empire of Halleffle is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ruzdan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.121 billion Hallefflers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chepal. The average income tax rate is 86.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Hallefflish economy, worth 186 trillion Dochens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 59,851 Dochens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public, hazmat suits are a common Hallefflish garb, the nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books, and the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halleffle's national animal is the Ghost, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ruzdanism.

Halleffle is ranked 69,850^th in the world and 1,941^st in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,109.29 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.