The Federation of Hiirenvesi Lake is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 1.155 billion Hiirenvesi Lakeans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.8%.

The thriving Hiirenvesi Lakean economy, worth 81.7 trillion gambles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,692 gambles, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

A rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows, the Treasury Minister takes anxiety medication every time kids lose their sports kits, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, and naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hiirenvesi Lake's national animal is the gamble, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hiirenvesi Lake is ranked 119,840^th in the world and 279^th in Lakes in Finland for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,534.23 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.