The People's Republic of Hamulhesh is a huge, genial nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 607 million Hamulhesh 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 51.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Hamulhesh economy, worth 15.8 trillion Hamulhesh dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 26,003 Hamulhesh dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Embarrassed police officers wear spandex and carry net guns, when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, and Leader's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hamulhesh's national animal is the salmon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Hamulhesh is ranked 290,225^th in the world and 50^th in MJT for Most Developed, scoring 47.65 on the Human Development Index.