The Witch Coven of Assorted Hag 40 is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.098 billion Assorted Hag 40ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 93.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Assorted Hag 40ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,848 trillion kronor a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 183,076 kronor, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Elementary school children develop thousand-yard stares, the drive to dismantle public transport has crashed and burned, aging citizens are celebrating the end of the 'Early Bird War', and scrapyards are filled with Leader's face. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Assorted Hag 40's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Assorted Hag 40 is ranked 15,215^th in the world and 183^rd in Eye for Highest Poor Incomes, with 103,632.17 Standard Monetary Units.