The Protectorate of Hoggystan is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 527 million Hoggystanians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.0%.

The very strong Hoggystanian economy, worth 29.9 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is 56,744 Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 160,177 per year while the poor average 16,091, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes. Crime is a problem. Hoggystan's national animal is the Hog, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Hoggystan is ranked 64,775^th in the world and 10^th in Antisipation Refounded for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,205.12 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.