The Retired Daimyo of Hotti is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Kitty with an iron fist, and notable for its enslaved workforce, public floggings, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 35.026 billion Hottians 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 relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokyo. The average income tax rate is 31.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Hottian economy, worth an astonishing 13,313 trillion Yen a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 380,102 Yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

The country behaves just like a group of independent provinces all stacked up under a trench coat, defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were, Kitty seems to wear red a lot these days, and election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hotti's national animal is the Fish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Shinto.

Hotti is ranked 15,597^th in the world and 3^rd in Feudal Japan for Lowest Crime Rates, with 93.65 law-abiding acts per hour.