The Crossword Puzzle of Hollis Radin is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 2.323 billion merchergeners 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 Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Petaluma. The average income tax rate is 73.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Hollis Radinian economy, worth 128 trillion salmon filets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 55,204 salmon filets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery, the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime, and people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hollis Radin's national animal is the Goose, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Unitarianism.

Hollis Radin is ranked 286,761^st in the world and 15^th in Silicon Valley for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -13.96 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.