The Most Serene Republic of Hikea is a large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 172 million Hikeans are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 34.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Hikean economy, worth 8.46 trillion Hikean Trout a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,157 Hikean Trout, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The musical cognoscenti insist the national anthem just isn't the same without a double contrabass flute, the nation turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in its quest for athletic supremacy, hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal, and days begin with afternoon tea. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hikea's national animal is the Trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Hikea is ranked 139,146^th in the world and 848^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,655.25 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.