The Grand Corporate Consortium of Harbitros is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Lucius Strebenheim with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 22.91 billion Harbians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sterling City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Harbian economy, worth a remarkable 8,468 trillion Silverlings a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 369,642 Silverlings, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,445,881 per year while the poor average 3,533, a ratio of 975 to 1.

Fake revenge can be served either cold or hot, children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist, tour guides tell passengers that there is beautiful architecture just behind the two-hundred-foot concrete walls, and the purgative quality of Harbian cuisine is known across the globe. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Harbitros's national animal is the Fairy Groundhog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Theoavarism.

Harbitros is ranked 261^st in the world and 1^st in Lucretian Hegemony for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 33,792.27 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.