The Most Serene Republic of The Hakurei is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 582 million Reimuites 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 relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yakumograd. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Hakureian economy, worth 51.5 trillion Mons a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 88,548 Mons, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 532,727 per year while the poor average 6,637, a ratio of 80.3 to 1.

Corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with, all recreational drugs are legal, books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy, and an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. The Hakurei's national animal is the Reimungton 870, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Hakurei is ranked 278,740^th in the world and 2^nd in United fraternal nations of gensokyo for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.62 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.