The State of Hanjam is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 18.38 billion Hanjamians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 75.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Hanjamian economy, worth 74.0 trillion betales 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 4,024 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gambling is outlawed, Hanjam has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Hanjam in an international press conference, and a major religion has been named as Hanjam's national religion. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hanjam's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hanjam is ranked 194,980^th in the world and 3^rd in Republic of Korea for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -2.45 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.