The Armed Republic of Hattersaw is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 256 million Hatterssians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 58.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Hattersawian economy, worth 8.31 trillion Hatts a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,468 Hatts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign leaders' Twitcher accounts are monitored for potential threats to national security, city workers have declared that rolling markets aren't good for business after all, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and the weather in Hattersaw City is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hattersaw's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Hattersaw is ranked 268,830^th in the world and 251^st in Declansburg for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8.83 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.