The Republic of Haston is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 841 million Hastonians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haston City. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Hastonian economy, worth 75.9 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is 90,260 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing, politicians tend to jump ship to whichever party is currently leading in the polls, calling dibs is an unalienable right, and people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Haston's national animal is the Vizsla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Haston is ranked 27,263^rd in the world and 1,349^th in Lazarus for Most Valuable International Artwork, with zero Bank.