The Basket Weaving Factory State of Hoffania is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Unit 0001 with an iron fist, and renowned for its lack of airports, fear of technology, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.876 billion Robots are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Factories 1-397. The average income tax rate is 40.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Robotian economy, worth a remarkable 1,973 trillion 1s and 0s a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 142,236 1s and 0s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector, it is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language, artists are renowned for their ability to make art pieces out of thin air, and public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Hoffania's national animal is the Robot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Cult of the Artificial Intelligence.

Hoffania is ranked 4,516^th in the world and 103^rd in the Rejected Realms for Highest Food Quality, scoring 214.41 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.