The Super Fun State of Hopewell Maxen is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Dictator April with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, infamous sell-swords, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.284 billion Losers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of El Diablo. The average income tax rate is 73.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Hopewell Maxenian economy, worth 369 trillion Dinks 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Trout Farming. 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 86,136 Dinks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Mona Lola's famous mysterious smile is being altered to resemble Dictator April's enigmatic grin, the line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long, the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition, and work creation schemes keep the masses occupied with meaningless tasks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hopewell Maxen's national animal is the Lazer Crab, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Satanism.

Hopewell Maxen is ranked 270,578^th in the world and 86^th in Wintercrest for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -8.49 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.