The GAME of Half Life 2 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Valve with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, state-planned economy, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.014 billion Half Life 2ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 220. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.0%.

The large but underdeveloped Half Life 2ian economy, worth 111 trillion 16 November 2004s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 37,130 16 November 2004s, with the richest citizens earning 9.8 times as much as the poorest.

The new airport at Mr. Giles' farm is panicking his sheep, the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, the government tries not to listen to the people unless it absolutely has to, and arms manufacturing has been put at an arm's length. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Half Life 2's national animal is the Valve, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is FPS.

Half Life 2 is ranked 264,169^th in the world and 87^th in Steam for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4.9 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.