The Empire of Hippe Lukiia is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Our Benevolent Supreme Overlord with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.603 billion Hippe Lukiians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lukeppe. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Hippe Lukiian economy, worth 505 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 194,079 guilders, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 591,972 per year while the poor average 49,351, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

The word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, most Hippe Lukiians would sell their own grandmother, and people forget to eat because they are too busy singing Our Benevolent Supreme Overlord's praises. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hippe Lukiia's national animal is the kangaroo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is High Obsoism.

Hippe Lukiia is ranked 233,696^th in the world and 359^th in Lone Wolves United for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.