The Democratic Workers' Republic of Hykonica is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Praeses Hiconicae | Πρόεδρος τῆς Ὑκωνίκα with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.216 billion Hykonicans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thessalonica | Θεσσαλονίκη. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Hykonican economy, worth 997 trillion Denarius Hiconicanus | Ὑκονικὴ δραχμήs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 191,085 Denarius Hiconicanus | Ὑκονικὴ δραχμήs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hykonica is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, prenuptial contracts have replaced diamond rings in marriage proposals, and traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hykonica's national animal is the Felis Hiconis | Ἡ τοῦ Ὑκόνος γαλή, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hykonica is ranked 1,985^th in the world and 28^th in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 71.4 average smiles per day.