The Pink holy christmas of Hal Ghatisemagn is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Santa claus with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, pith helmet sales, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.422 billion Hal Ghatisemagnians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrasil. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Hal Ghatisemagnian economy, worth a remarkable 2,036 trillion Gold bars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 317,175 Gold bars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,925,963 per year while the poor average 3,429, a ratio of 853 to 1.

Yggdrasil has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', and subscribing to the Benevolence Society for Impoverished Leaders is an effective way to dodge the draft. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Hal Ghatisemagn's national animal is the Bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Athyism.

Hal Ghatisemagn is ranked 141,647^th in the world and 2,350^th in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,074.72 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.