The Minecraft River Valley of A Salmon Named Harold is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Harold with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.518 billion pineapple pizza enjoyers enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of a comically large fish bowl. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The frighteningly efficient pineapple pizza enjoyer economy, worth a remarkable 1,942 trillion IOU Cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 228,054 IOU Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

New pests have been imported into A Salmon Named Harold, a suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to pineapple pizza enjoyer politicians, the government has solemnly sworn not to look up other nations' internet browsing history if the favor is returned, and the atmosphere in pineapple pizza enjoyer boardrooms is turning more gay. Crime is totally unknown. A Salmon Named Harold's national animal is the Salmon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the questioning of string cheese.

A Salmon Named Harold is ranked 4,835^th in the world and 209^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 172 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.