The Silly Democracy of HarlHarl is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its closed borders, enforced nudity, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.069 billion HarlHarlians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming HarlHarlian economy, worth 92.7 trillion Cheeses 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 large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. 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 86,672 Cheeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Some HarlHarlians have nicknamed the monarch "Caligula", education is transforming people into first-rate snobs, military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds', and soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HarlHarl's national animal is the Kraken, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

HarlHarl is ranked 323,851^st in the world and 1,326^th in Europe for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -13.71 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.