The Supremely Democratic States of Hirota is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Kan Pae Down with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 44.149 billion Hirotans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The minute government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 1.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hirotan economy, worth a remarkable 7,996 trillion coins a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Retail. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 181,122 coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bins outnumber trees in city parks, medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it, and praying before a battle is a court-martial offence. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Hirota's national animal is the forest owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Hirota is ranked 1,280^th in the world and 25^th in Europe for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 36,221.9 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.