The Holy Island Kingdom of Holma is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by King Nestor Lilian II with an iron fist, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, infamous sell-swords, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.934 billion Holmen are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — is primarily concerned with Spirituality, although Law & Order, Defense, and Administration are also considered important, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Angel's Wait. The average income tax rate is 86.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Holman economy, worth 523 trillion Drumms a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 106,138 Drumms, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters, the most common answers to where babies come from are "uh... ask your mother" and "um... ask your father", a life spent suffering in silence is considered noble, and oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Holma's national animal is the Crow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodoxy.

Holma is ranked 235,062^nd in the world and 1,583^rd in 10000 Islands for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 499.88 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.