The Disputed Territories of Hoxa Head is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Rogie with an even hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, parental licensing program, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, cheerful population of 11.765 billion Hoxa Headians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Hoxa Headian economy, worth a remarkable 1,342 trillion Neds a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,116 Neds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 381,085 per year while the poor average 25,422, a ratio of 15.0 to 1.

Lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, a law degree is required before telling people not to drink and drive, citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, and every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hoxa Head's national animal is the Fug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hoxa Head is ranked 2,835^th in the world and 1^st in Orkney for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 31 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.