The District of Small Hope is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by privy council chairman with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 10.95 billion Smallas 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 large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Small Hopean economy, worth 201 trillion juno aurums 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 18,382 juno aurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism, Small Hope has designated District City as its capital city, Privy council chairman has just been declared ruler of Small Hope in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Small Hope's national animal is the quick pink fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Small Hope is ranked 59,253^rd in the world and 2^nd in The Union of States for Safest, scoring 99.61 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.