The Grand Duchy of Hopia Owl is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Parliamentary Chairman with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 4.067 billion Hopia Owlians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of High Nest. The average income tax rate is 29.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hopia Owlian economy, worth 767 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 188,655 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The well-to-do in Asian Cooperation Pact are never on time for important appointments, people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, and the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Hopia Owl's national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cult of Cthulhu.

Hopia Owl is ranked 62,964^th in the world and 3^rd in Asian Cooperation Pact for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,278.71 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.