The Monarquia Eleitoral of Hippie Spirit is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 4.218 billion Hippies hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Medieval. The average income tax rate is 64.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hippie economy, worth 583 trillion Peso Hippies 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 Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. 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 an impressive 138,322 Peso Hippies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hippie Spirit's fine wines are renowned throughout the region, national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first, the government maintains a Department of Skulduggery, and commuters regularly break the sound barrier -- and several bones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Hippie Spirit's national animal is the Onça Fumante, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Umbanda.

Hippie Spirit is ranked 218,303^rd in the world and 7^th in Groland for Fattest Citizens, with 8.84 Obesity Rate.