The People's Republic of Greater Hansia-Karia is a very large, genial nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 166 million Hansians-Karians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 76.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Hansian-Karian economy, worth 3.89 trillion hansiis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 23,444 hansiis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government prides itself on being smug and condescending to idiots, the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, and smoking is banned in public areas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Hansia-Karia's national animal is the yellow swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Greater Hansia-Karia is ranked 285,708^th in the world and 6,928^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -15.49 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.