The Armed Republic of Hoppigland is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 197 million Hoppigdoggies are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 60.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Hoppigy economy, worth 9.45 trillion Hoppigcoins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,982 Hoppigcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished, the entire entry for Hoppigland in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', and the prevalence of circular logic frequently renders parliamentary observers dizzy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hoppigland's national animal is the Hoppig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hoppigland is ranked 60,985^th in the world and 51^st in Byzantion for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 51.48 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.