The Community of The Hidden Sand Village is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 652 million shinobi are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Kazekage's Office. The average income tax rate is 71.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient shinobi economy, worth 21.6 trillion marks 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 Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. Average income is 33,156 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, bitter pastors forced to officiate gay marriage 'accidentally' pronounce couples "husband and abomination", the government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority, and religious turf wars have caused frustrated police to pray for divine intervention. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Hidden Sand Village's national animal is the tanuki, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Hidden Sand Village is ranked 320,081^st in the world and 891^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Patriotic, with 0.79 flags saluted per person per day.