The Republic of St Hilde is a tiny, orderly nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 16 million St Hildeans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 71.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case St Hildean economy, worth 108 billion deniers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is 6,809 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. St Hilde's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

St Hilde is ranked 138,652^nd in the world and 51^st in Imperatus for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,797.82 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.