The People's Republic of Hobimou is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 224 million Hobimouans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Hobimouan economy, worth 4.61 trillion pumis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 20,562 pumis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government prides itself on being smug and condescending to idiots, Hobimouan police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, ghost regiments exist only on paper, and the World People's Republic Games have been won again by Hobimou as no other country cares enough to compete. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hobimou's national animal is the bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Hobimou is ranked 311,483^rd in the world and 580^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 412.68 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.