The Democratic Republic of Holmis is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.144 billion Holmisians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 75.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Holmisian economy, worth 39.3 trillion pesos a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 34,341 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Nothing gets the party jumping like Leader specifying how high, corrupt paupers spend taxpayer pesos on liquor and tobacco, citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint, and private law firms are unheard of. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Holmis's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Holmis is ranked 16,352^nd in the world and 129^th in Refugia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,168.39 pounds of wildlife per square mile.