The Republic of Hisan is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Boris Natali with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 13.428 billion Hisanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Akoyama. The average income tax rate is 52.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Hisanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,214 trillion Sliding Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,472 Sliding Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public, it is cheaper to die in the wilderness than to survive, and back-alley holistic doctors carry crystals in long trench coats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hisan's national animal is the Amanojaku, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Hisan is ranked 92,062^nd in the world and 9^th in The Slide Countries for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,030.19 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.