The Empire of Hsiangzhou is a very large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 251 million Hsianese enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, pro-business government prioritizes Industry, although Defense, Healthcare, and Education are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.8%.

The all-consuming Hsianese economy, worth 23.2 trillion Taels a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 92,288 Taels, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 400,916 per year while the poor average 13,468, a ratio of 29.8 to 1.

An online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse, war is made in the name of love, schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, and artists are pillars of society. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Hsiangzhou's national animal is the Crowned Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Hsiangzhou is ranked 223,150^th in the world and 68^th in The Hole To Hide In for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 245.69 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.