The People's commonwealth of Hardyism is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its fear of technology, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.491 billion Hardyians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gainesville. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hardyian economy, worth 586 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 130,546 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Brave curators do battle with disorganised government libraries, residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants, scrapyards are filled with Leader's face, and citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hardyism's national animal is the Chesapeke Bay Retriever, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hardyism is ranked 327,021^st in the world and 4,190^th in The East Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 18.64 on the Bus Surprisal Index.