The Community of Hurricane-III is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 289 million Hurricane-IIIians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 19.7%.

The Hurricane-IIIian economy, worth 13.1 trillion Hurricanes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 45,414 Hurricanes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Protests are illegal, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, euthanasia is illegal, and the nation is completely gun-free. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hurricane-III's national animal is the Hurricane.

Hurricane-III is ranked 49,954^th in the world and 1^st in Starventure Influence for Safest, scoring 102.76 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.