The People's Republic of Henchikurin is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Takashima with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.342 billion Hentish are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fuchu. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Hentish economy, worth a remarkable 2,834 trillion Yen 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 184,774 Yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Birth rates have hit an all-time low, seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals, in musicals everybody's a little bit racist, and anti-government web sites are springing up. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Henchikurin's national animal is the Crane, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shinto.

Henchikurin is ranked 26,266^th in the world and 29^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Populations, with 15.3 billion capita.