The Free Land of Lower Houna Pla Bayia is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its daily referendums, digital currency, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 799 million Lower Houna Pla Bayians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Lower Houna Pla Bayian economy, worth 82.2 trillion hounas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 102,826 hounas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 371,841 per year while the poor average 20,292, a ratio of 18.3 to 1.

Legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, the law says it's okay to sell a bomb to a terrorist so long as they promise not to detonate it, being Leader has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, and politicians frequently make unusual poses during speeches in hopes of inspiring the next internet fad. Crime is totally unknown. Lower Houna Pla Bayia's national animal is the sheep, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lower Houna Pla Bayia is ranked 76,971^st in the world and 73^rd in Karma for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,008.95 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.