The Beauty School of California Hair Design Academy is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 1.093 billion Californians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of La Mesa. The average income tax rate is 35.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Californian economy, worth 12.6 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 11,515 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, and California Hair Design Academy has designated La Mesa as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. California Hair Design Academy's national animal is the horse.

California Hair Design Academy is ranked 254,066^th in the world and 561^st in California Colleges and Universities for Most Patriotic, with 5.64 flags saluted per person per day.