The Rússian Federation of Hope couny is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Jason Frollo with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.541 billion Hoperists are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moskow. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Hope counyian economy, worth 332 trillion kaisers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,208 kaisers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Parents ask their ten-year-olds for help with their government-mandated book reports, black tea is only available on the black market, woefully uninformed voters cast their ballots at random, and excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hope couny's national animal is the hottweiler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Buddhism.

Hope couny is ranked 87,478^th in the world and 2,469^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.