The Republic of Hjonke is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its smutty television, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.252 billion Hjonkeans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lucidell. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Hjonkean economy, worth 166 trillion Hjonkean Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 51,298 Hjonkean Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Laws are littered with references to cheese, they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop), airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path, and the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Hjonke's national animal is the goose.

Hjonke is ranked 285,599^th in the world and 6,025^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Authoritarian, with 138.02 milliStalins.