The Incorporated Entity of Harmonious Paperclips is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Viceroy with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, unlimited-speed roads, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 29.214 billion Harpapzens 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cubiclelyse City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Harmonious Paperclipsian economy, worth an astonishing 21,815 trillion Bzytes a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 746,758 Bzytes, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

International tensions are high as Harmonious Paperclips threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported, and drunk drivers are sentenced to death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Harmonious Paperclips's national animal is the Western scrub jay, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Harmonious Paperclips is ranked 5,716^th in the world and 137^th in the South Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 17,633.49 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.