The Republic of Hilonde is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Amarok Kosumy with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.284 billion Hilondeans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 86.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hilondean economy, worth a remarkable 1,517 trillion euros a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 183,182 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mass shootings have become the new normal, corporate lawyers are joyfully combing through the new tax code for any new loopholes for their clients, trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages, and consuming ecstasy is a common rite of passage. Crime is totally unknown. Hilonde's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hilonde is ranked 2,726^th in the world and 1^st in United Nations of Prosperity for Most Cultured, scoring 225 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.