The Celestial Dragon Empire of Halsoni is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Celestial Dragon Emperor Yu Shin with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.285 billion Halsonians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Administration, Law & Order, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Luoyang. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Halsonian economy, worth 104 trillion Yuan a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 81,634 Yuan, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months, woefully uninformed voters cast their ballots at random, military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, and Celestial Dragon Emperor Yu Shin is the self-declared God of all Halsoni. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halsoni's national animal is the Azure Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Yin and Yang.

Halsoni is ranked 241,362^nd in the world and 1,320^th in The Communist Bloc for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -38.91 on the Hayek Index.