The Basket Weaving Factory State of Hoffania is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Unit 0001 with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, triple-decker prams, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.903 billion Robots 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Factories 1-397. The average income tax rate is 62.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Robotian economy, worth a remarkable 3,045 trillion 1s and 0s 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. 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 161,103 1s and 0s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Tax revenue is often intercepted by international accountants before ever seeing the national treasury, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on Robotian roads, and slavery is freedom. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Hoffania's national animal is the Robot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Cult of the Artificial Intelligence.

Hoffania is ranked 20,937^th in the world and 274^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Populations, with 18.9 billion capita.