The Constitutional Monarchy of Harchk is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, absence of drug laws, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 567 million Harchkians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ceirnd. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Harchkian economy, worth 42.3 trillion rheilks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is 74,672 rheilks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials, vital intelligence-gathering activities are often put on hold for Call of Honor tournaments, and spoiler warnings are now given out before political speeches. Crime is totally unknown. Harchk's national animal is the falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Harchk is ranked 22,863^rd in the world and 69^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 4,908.15 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.