The Democratic States of Hodena is a mammoth, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, free-roaming dinosaurs, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 6.346 billion Hodenans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The thriving Hodenan economy, worth 544 trillion rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 85,746 rupees, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs, childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave, and the government loves seeing the little people fight. Crime is well under control. Hodena's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hodena is ranked 38,050^th in the world and 52^nd in Nova Alterra for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,321.1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.