The Republic of Hartlan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.828 billion Hartlanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leopard City. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hartlanian economy, worth 307 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 168,288 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign ambassadors closely guard their culinary secrets, bug burgers are extra crunchy, public spending advocates dread when the government says they're here to help, and it's a jungle out there. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Hartlan's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hartlan is ranked 6,646^th in the world and 91^st in the Rejected Realms for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 14,870.78 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.