The Duncan MacLeod Immortality of The Highlander 1 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Awakening with a fair hand, and remarkable for its flagrant waste-dumping, devotion to social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 43.395 billion Highlanders live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government prioritizes Industry, with Education, Administration, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Glenfinnan Scotland. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 88.0%.

The frighteningly efficient The Highlander economy, worth an astonishing 16,858 trillion Severed Heads a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 388,488 Severed Heads, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,740,394 per year while the poor average 53,688, a ratio of 32.4 to 1.

Awakening steals from the rich and gives to the needy, ADHD now stands for Attention Distracted by Hardware Devices, autopsies often involve only cursory examination, and freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Highlander 1's national animal is the Awakening, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Quickening.

The Highlander 1 is ranked 206,217^th in the world and 2^nd in Ile de France for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -4.47 on the Clooney Contribution Index.