The Community of Huo Rage Ham is a very large, genial nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 169 million Huo Rage Hamians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Huo Rage Hamian economy, worth 4.81 trillion stuffs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 28,476 stuffs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political candidates recite daily pledges of loyalty to their chosen party, the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, and park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Huo Rage Ham's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Huo Rage Ham is ranked 18,601^st in the world and 459^th in The East Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 23.56 average smiles per day.