The Repubalika of Hearthrune is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Adolis El Bombi Garcia with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.232 billion Havatapers enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lapahana. The average income tax rate is 57.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Hearthrunean economy, worth 175 trillion Glimmers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,452 Glimmers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Recognizing the Hearthrunean flag qualifies you for citizenship, skyscrapers get built in just days, the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", and literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hearthrune's national animal is the Sharktopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is amogusism.

Hearthrune is ranked 126,003^rd in the world and 41^st in Alcris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 929.88 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.