The National Populist Front of Hoxie is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Leonard Kincaid with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 10.887 billion Hoxieans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Presho. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Hoxiean economy, worth a remarkable 3,508 trillion Toxes 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. 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 an amazing 322,273 Toxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Victims of crime are viewed as less trustworthy than politicians, the government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority, the police turn a blind eye to desecration if it's done in the name of religion or protest, and solid-gold toilets are Hoxiean prisons' least expensive furnishings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Hoxie's national animal is the Falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Hoxie is ranked 6,506^th in the world and 6^th in New Warsaw Pact for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 501.23 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.