The Virtual Artist of Harano Oni is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its lack of airports, compulsory gun ownership, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 9.007 billion Harano Onians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 40.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Harano Onian economy, worth 617 trillion yen a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,558 yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture, financial investors are noting a boom in artillery, the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", and aides are afraid to ask if Leader wants a cup of tea or coffee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Harano Oni's national animal is the demon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Harano Oni is ranked 308,201^st in the world and 3,457^th in Remembrance for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -8.39 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.