The District of Harz is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 1.791 billion Harzians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saxony-Anhalt. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.5%.

The sizeable but inefficient Harzian economy, worth 75.7 trillion Euros a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,267 Euros, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 124,488 per year while the poor average 11,295, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, discarded pennies litter the streets, and government election advice reads like a restaurant menu. Crime is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Harz's national animal is the Germany, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Harz is ranked 219,833^rd in the world and 7^th in Saxony Anhalt for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 784.69 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.