The Community of Hoytscla is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 12.655 billion Hoytsclans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 37.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Hoytsclan economy, worth 350 trillion Kogans 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 27,709 Kogans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, Hoytscla has designated Hoytscla City as its capital city, Leader has just been declared ruler of Hoytscla in an international press conference, and a major religion has been named as Hoytscla's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hoytscla's national animal is the sturgeon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Hoytscla is ranked 47,439^th in the world and 145^th in The Eighth Closet for Largest Populations, with 12.7 billion capita.