The People's Republic of Hilldorien is a small, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 32 million Hilldorienians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Hilldorienian economy, worth 688 billion Castars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 21,501 Castars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves, millions of Hilldorienians are excellent swimmers, and road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hilldorien's national animal is the Buck, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hilldorien is ranked 141,065^th in the world and 2,053^rd in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -48.85 on the Scary Big Number Scale.