The Colony of Halcyon Holdings Corp is a large, efficient nation, notable for its public floggings, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 50 million Colonists are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The thriving Halcyon Holdings Corpian economy, worth 3.91 trillion Bits a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is 78,245 Bits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 377,271 per year while the poor average 9,440, a ratio of 40.0 to 1.

Citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets, people caught mistreating Halcyon Holdings Corp's flag generally wind up in a great deal of pain, in court almost every witness is a hostile witness, and pet owners want to know why their animals keep smiling at them. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Halcyon Holdings Corp's national animal is the Canid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Halcyon Holdings Corp is ranked 225,302^nd in the world and 132^nd in Anarchy for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 750.39 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.