The Oppressed Peoples of The High Temperature Areas is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Mr Pig with an iron fist, and notable for its enslaved workforce, lack of airports, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.974 billion High Temperature Areians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Spirituality also on the agenda, while Social Policy isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caracas. The average income tax rate is 98.9%.

The all-consuming High Temperature Areian economy, worth a remarkable 1,737 trillion Rubles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. 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 an amazing 290,856 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Napalm is the tool of choice for disabling eco-unfriendly forestry operations, the nation has always been at war with Moltovea, relations with Merovingia are as cold as The High Temperature Areas's skill with the blade, and citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The High Temperature Areas's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pigism.

The High Temperature Areas is ranked 304^th in the world and 7^th in the South Pacific for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 117,446.68 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.