The Retired Daimyo of Hotti is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Kitty with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, sprawling nuclear power plants, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 35.089 billion Hottians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokyo. The average income tax rate is 34.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Hottian economy, worth an astonishing 13,530 trillion Yen a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 385,610 Yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, nocturnal light pollution is mostly blue, increasing numbers of children in Hotti have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers, and local officials love to claim the protection of their Big Brother. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hotti's national animal is the Fish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Shinto.

Hotti is ranked 12,736^th in the world and 4^th in Feudal Japan for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 11,336.9 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.