The Borderlands of No Hope is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by TaylorJames with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 16.201 billion No Hopers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Disarray. The average income tax rate is 23.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient No Hoper economy, worth a remarkable 3,755 trillion TJS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an amazing 231,817 TJS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed, strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins, political candidates recite daily pledges of loyalty to their chosen party, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Axolotl. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. No Hope's national animal is the Axolotl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

No Hope is ranked 232,154^th in the world and 12,460^th in Osiris for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,537.61 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.