The Guardian State of Hashishin is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Old Man with a fair hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 10.538 billion Assassins enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alamut Castle. The average income tax rate is 56.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Hashishinian economy, worth 907 trillion Daggers a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,143 Daggers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium, children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and Hashishin successfully hosted the the Plains of Perdition Olympics. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Hashishin's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Order of Assassins.

Hashishin is ranked 222,883^rd in the world and 464^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Extreme, scoring 13.16 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.