The Minecraft River Valley of A Salmon Named Harold is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Harold with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.64 billion pineapple pizza enjoyers enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of a comically large fish bowl. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient pineapple pizza enjoyer economy, worth a remarkable 1,966 trillion IOU Cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 227,650 IOU Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, vast amounts of energy are expended moving water to hilltop lakes, the tobacco industry has burnt out, and political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Salmon Named Harold's national animal is the Salmon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the questioning of string cheese.

A Salmon Named Harold is ranked 1,269^th in the world and 60^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 931.17 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.