The People's Republic of Hweran is a huge, genial nation, ruled by Sharan Santand with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 795 million Hweranians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Darran. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Hweranian economy, worth 53.2 trillion Hwerundis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 66,931 Hwerundis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires, NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests, the nation's Medal of Honour can be found as a free toy in breakfast cereal, and the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hweran's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Hweran is ranked 270,497^th in the world and 1,351^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 56.32 pounds of wildlife per square mile.