The People's Republic of Hempton is a huge, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, national health service, and smutty television. The democratic population of 735 million Hemptonians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 20.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Hemptonian economy, worth 36.0 trillion hems a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 48,987 hems, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Some people will do literally anything to be in the spotlight, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, when conspiracy theorists talk about "government moles" they're referring to mysteriously mobile skin lesions, and Hemptonians are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna. Crime is totally unknown. Hempton's national animal is the Meerkat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Hempton is ranked 59,437^th in the world and 233^rd in Europeia for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 4,335.91 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.