The Confederacy of Hoemiestan is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.423 billion Hoemiestanians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Hoemiestanian economy, worth 138 trillion PPS 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 97,132 PPS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results, visitors to Graffiti Warrens National Park are offered a complimentary tetanus vaccination, the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition, and remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hoemiestan's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Hoemiestan is ranked 254,108^th in the world and 12,204^th in the South Pacific for Highest Crime Rates, with 1.86 crimes per hour.