The Republic of HI-1 is a titanic, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 21.956 billion HI-1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 33.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong HI-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,317 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,009 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

People who have lived their entire lives in HI-1 are shocked to discover that they are not citizens, drunk drivers are sentenced to death, seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, and the government is flooded with compensation requests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HI-1's national animal is the Death's-head Hawkmoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

HI-1 is ranked 264,993^rd in the world and 1^st in Banff for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring zero on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.