The Empire of Halfbury is a titanic, socially progressive nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 24.121 billion Halfburyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 63.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Halfburyian economy, worth 652 trillion Sovereigns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,032 Sovereigns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, and a bureaucratic fight over HIA cafeteria food expenditures has caused the temporary suspension of all agency counterintelligence operations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halfbury's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Halfbury is ranked 83,378^th in the world and 2^nd in Genosha for Safest, scoring 90.12 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.