The Empire of Halcaron is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 3.126 billion Halcaronians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elwich City. The average income tax rate is 32.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Halcaronian economy, worth 319 trillion Corvuses a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 102,140 Corvuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The country behaves just like a group of independent provinces all stacked up under a trench coat, the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, clergy who start talking about politics are forced to take a holy vow of silence, and foreign workers are flooding in as Corvuses flood out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Halcaron's national animal is the Crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Halcaron is ranked 52,896^th in the world and 2,868^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.