The People's commonwealth of Hardyism is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its closed borders, fear of technology, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.416 billion Hardyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gainesville. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hardyian economy, worth 575 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 130,226 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hotels often double as quarantine zones, being Leader has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, the saying "when pigs fly" has been changed to "when the lights work", and mountains of VHS tapes of police actions are stacking up in the National Library. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hardyism's national animal is the Chesapeke Bay Retriever, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hardyism is ranked 315,450^th in the world and 3,936^th in The East Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -9.38 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.