The Incorporated States of Slack Hugo is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.395 billion Slack Hugoans 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 large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 59.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Slack Hugoan economy, worth 101 trillion Dollars a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,431 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Photographers have to apply for a license to photograph Leader, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Slack Hugoans, pet owners make sure their dogs wear diapers, and debate rages over whether ground fish guts can be spread on fields. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slack Hugo's national animal is the Immortal Jellyfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Slack Hugo is ranked 49,874^th in the world and 1,105^th in The East Pacific for Safest, scoring 102.99 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.