The People's Republic of Halinstan is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its frequent executions, sprawling nuclear power plants, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 714 million Halinstanis 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brogograd. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Halinstanian economy, worth 84.1 trillion Markoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is an impressive 117,854 Markoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Praying before a battle is a court-martial offence, massive new slaughterhouses are being hailed as a sign of progress, billions of Markoes are being blown on orbital weapons development, and the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halinstan's national animal is the Wolverine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Halinstan is ranked 20,706^th in the world and 4^th in Solidarity for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 4,703.5 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.