The State of Hamedan is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 14.759 billion Hamedanians 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Hamedanian economy, worth 276 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is 18,732 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed, military spending recently hit a new high, and Hamedan has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hamedan's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hamedan is ranked 283,478^th in the world and 8^th in The Union of States for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -10.25 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.