The Free Land of Studying Hard is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, ban on automobiles, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The compassionate population of 9.367 billion Studying Hardians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 39.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Studying Hardian economy, worth 937 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,041 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers, the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state, the military struggles with recruitment, and the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Studying Hard's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Studying Hard is ranked 74,949^th in the world and 22^nd in Art by Sam Yang for Largest Populations, with 9.37 billion capita.