The Democratic Socialist Lands of Hongos is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Zack De Luca with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, daily referendums, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.895 billion Hongosians 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Democratica. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hongosian economy, worth 277 trillion hongs 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, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 146,492 hongs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists are pillars of society, stuttering trypanophobes are doomed never to marry, the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, and autopsies often involve only cursory examination. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hongos's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hongos is ranked 291,775^th in the world and 2,615^th in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 36.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.