The Bird Is The Word of Hydroponic Nation is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Hydroponicus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, absence of drug laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 48.312 billion Hydroponicans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greenleaf. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hydroponic Nationian economy, worth a remarkable 7,647 trillion Funyons a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 158,300 Funyons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, death is nobody's business, and the 'Museum Of Stuff We Stole' is a tourist favourite. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Hydroponic Nation's national animal is the Wombat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Hydroponic Nation is ranked 332,984^th in the world and 35^th in Wysteria for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring -40.37 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.