The Republic of Hoydland is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Governor Chaguye Ayush with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.331 billion Hoydlandians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Khottar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The powerhouse Hoydlandian economy, worth 95.6 trillion mongoes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 71,795 mongoes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 283,090 per year while the poor average 12,342, a ratio of 22.9 to 1.

Crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination, immigrants are told to pull themselves up by their worn-out budget bootstraps, carrots are orange, apples are red and food waste is increasing, and Governor Chaguye Ayush has just been declared ruler of Hoydland in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Hoydland's national animal is the furret, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Hoydland is ranked 289,593^rd in the world and 49^th in The Celestial Empire for Safest, scoring 12.51 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.