The Pink Holy Winter Wonderland of Hurricane CIX is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Hurricane with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, national health service, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.625 billion Hurricaneans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Hurricanean economy, worth 487 trillion gold bars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 185,709 gold bars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 735,146 per year while the poor average 31,721, a ratio of 23.2 to 1.

It is universally agreed that the first 31 issues are the only ones with humor and charm (Hurricane CIX has found 6 easter eggs), alien kidnappings of both cattle and humans are headline news on the most respected papers (Hurricane CIX has found 6 easter eggs), Hurricane spends Halloween alternatively growling and howling (Hurricane CIX has found 6 easter eggs), and volunteers are signing up to take arms against an incursion of flesh-eating zombies (Hurricane CIX has found 6 easter eggs). Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive. Hurricane CIX's national animal is the bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Hurricane CIX is ranked 83,332^nd in the world and 1^st in Piadiap for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 2,220.81 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.