The Free Land of Haraken is a small, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 40 million Harakens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 34.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Harakenian economy, worth 1.00 trillion Haraken Credits a year, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 25,063 Haraken Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is lending a hand to private industry, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", busy commuters no longer hear the cries of "I want some more!" on the nation's streets, and people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Haraken's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Haraken is ranked 187,511^th in the world and 818^th in Europe for Most Corrupt Governments, with 2.09 kickbacks per hour.