The Grand Estate of Harlaxton Castle is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by King Julian with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 27.443 billion Harlaxton Castleans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Policy, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grantham. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Harlaxton Castlean economy, worth a remarkable 1,077 trillion Textbooks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,265 Textbooks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most citizens in Harlaxton Castle are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, people are now classified as male, female, or genderqueer, and recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable. Crime is totally unknown. Harlaxton Castle's national animal is the Curly Horned Ibis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Algebraic Structures.

Harlaxton Castle is ranked 55,664^th in the world and 3^rd in GREAT Britain for Highest Food Quality, scoring 31.72 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.