The Holy Libertarian Empire of Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Jebediah Money with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 5.976 billion Horseshoes and Hand Grenadesians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Big Bucksville. The average income tax rate is 43.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Horseshoes and Hand Grenadesian economy, worth 597 trillion Currencies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,985 Currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Education for the poor is learning to ask "do you want fries with that?", teddy bear James Dean (aka "the Rebel Without the Claws") helps convince kids that candy cigarettes are cool, people think garlic bread counts as one of their "five a day", and a surprising number of travelers carry their water in vodka bottles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Horseshoes and Hand Grenades's national animal is the Animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is We Fool You.

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is ranked 24,914^th in the world and 354^th in The East Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 84.87 kickbacks per hour.