The Constitutional Kingdom of Hostia is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Barbosa Bardavi III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its daily referendums, avant-garde cinema, and public floggings. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 4.626 billion Hostians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Jeruville. The average income tax rate is 47.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Hostianese economy, worth 221 trillion Florins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,835 Florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

A light breeze is enough to make Barbosa Bardavi III fold, clerics are taught that silence is golden and duct tape is silver, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and the face of Barbosa Bardavi III is a permanent feature of the New Jeruville skyline. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hostia's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Lay.

Hostia is ranked 293,354^th in the world and 10,995^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.58 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.