The Republic of Background Hufflepuff 5 is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 6.413 billion Background Hufflepuff 5ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Background Hufflepuff 5ian economy, worth 525 trillion Galleons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 81,993 Galleons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All guns must be registered, a three-year-old has been selected to run the civil service, research grant proposals read like political diatribes, and workers have seized control of the economy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Background Hufflepuff 5's national animal is the Badger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Background Hufflepuff 5 is ranked 88,206^th in the world and 4,371^st in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 17.76 kickbacks per hour.