The Imperium of Stud Hoy is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Hidden One with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, national health service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 9.406 billion Stud Hoyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imperial Hoy City. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stud Hoyian economy, worth a remarkable 2,147 trillion Credits a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 228,317 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters, more than one company makes the board game Monopoly, the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, and all judiciary cases are decided in the court of public opinion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Stud Hoy's national animal is the lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Stud Hoy is ranked 12,075^th in the world and 548^th in Osiris for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 7,825.17 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.