The Republic of The Hollow Hawk is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its hatred of cheese, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 8.529 billion Hollow Hawkians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 52.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Hollow Hawkian economy, worth 62.3 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Soda Sales. 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 7,301 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal, hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments, weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments, and a major religion has been named as The Hollow Hawk's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Hollow Hawk's national animal is the turtle.

The Hollow Hawk is ranked 249,054^th in the world and 104^th in League of Christian Nations for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -28.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.