The Overachieving Rebublic of Hamchatka is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 871 million Hamchatkans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and International Aid. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flochka. The average income tax rate is 56.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Hamchatkan economy, worth 23.9 trillion Massijes a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,462 Massijes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's taxpayers pay for foreign governments' extravagances, the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing, the new airport at Mr. Giles' farm is panicking his sheep, and Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Hamchatka's new capital. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hamchatka's national animal is the Bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hamchatka is ranked 144,622^nd in the world and 330^th in Starlight for Smartest Citizens, with 30.57 quips per hour.