The People's Republic of Hweran is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Sharan Santand with an iron fist, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 846 million Hweranians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Darran. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Hweranian economy, worth 57.0 trillion Hwerundis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 67,391 Hwerundis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires, NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests, the nation's Medal of Honour can be found as a free toy in breakfast cereal, and the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hweran's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Hweran is ranked 51,211^th in the world and 301^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Patriotic, with 27.02 flags saluted per person per day.