The People's Republic of Henchikurin is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Takashima with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.377 billion Hentish are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fuchu. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Hentish economy, worth a remarkable 2,833 trillion Yen a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 184,279 Yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Birth rates have hit an all-time low, seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals, in musicals everybody's a little bit racist, and anti-government web sites are springing up. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Henchikurin's national animal is the Crane, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shinto.

Henchikurin is ranked 5,095^th in the world and 28^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 559.9 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.