The んひ尺尺ﾉᄃﾑ刀乇 of The Hurricane is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Hurricane II with a fair hand, and notable for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and enforced nudity. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 4.335 billion Hurricaneans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eye of the Storm. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Hurricanean economy, worth a remarkable 1,144 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 263,938 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,402,060 per year while the poor average 3,287, a ratio of 730 to 1.

Park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders, home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks, and there's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Hurricane's national animal is the Bird, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Hurricaneanism.

The Hurricane is ranked 791^st in the world and 1^st in The Great Storm for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 22,185.03 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.