The Interstellar Colony of Hollow Rock is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Suzume Karolina with an even hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.285 billion Holites enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illustrata. The average income tax rate is 91.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Holite economy, worth 372 trillion Crescents a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 162,830 Crescents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Knock-knock jokes regularly get removed from websites for being too edgy, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, class action lawsuits have gone up in smoke thanks to government interference, and the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hollow Rock's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hollow Rock is ranked 4,281^st in the world and 6^th in Confederacy of Allied States for Safest, scoring 133.34 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.