The Dictatorship of Hata Altaniia is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its public floggings, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 270 million Hata Altaniians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 61.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Hata Altaniian economy, worth 6.33 trillion Great Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 23,429 Great Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Euthanasia is illegal, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, international tensions are high as Hata Altaniia threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens, and atheists and evolutionary biologists are fleeing the country like rats from a sinking ship. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hata Altaniia's national animal is the Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Hata Altaniia is ranked 143,865^th in the world and 204^th in KAISERREICH for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 646.93 on the Gilded Widget Scale.