The Republic of Sweet Harmony is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 2.161 billion Sweet Harmonyians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Sweet Harmonyian economy, worth 193 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,484 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 321,281 per year while the poor average 17,857, a ratio of 18.0 to 1.

Years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, the nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low, major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason, and new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Sweet Harmony to be bombproof. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sweet Harmony's national animal is the turtle.

Sweet Harmony is ranked 76,546^th in the world and 3^rd in Stars Above for Highest Average Incomes, with 89,484.86 Standard Monetary Units.