The Woodhouse Sanctum of Hoodoo is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, pith helmet sales, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed population of 31.355 billion Hoodooans 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 large government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Veronica. The average income tax rate is 61.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Hoodooan economy, worth a remarkable 2,491 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 79,476 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Serial killers are the country's biggest import, more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself, the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens, and over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hoodoo's national animal is the laughing swordfish, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Hoodoo is ranked 95,907^th in the world and 1^st in Ghoulsville for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,424.92 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.