The Dominion of Hydroreactive is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker with an iron fist, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, aversion to nipples, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.992 billion Hydroreactives 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hydra HQ. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Hydroreactivean economy, worth a remarkable 4,136 trillion Hydra's Hydrogens 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, quite specialized black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. 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 amazing 229,883 Hydra's Hydrogens, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 762,603 per year while the poor average 51,720, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.

The practice of capital punishment proves divisive, the legal system for the political class is completely separate from the one for normal citizens, the "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Hydroreactivean Navy, and most ambassadors from Hydroreactive retire only a few years after being appointed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hydroreactive's national animal is the Hail Hydra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Hydra.

Hydroreactive is ranked 167,279^th in the world and 2^nd in Esquarium for Most Primitive, scoring -63.32 on the Scary Big Number Scale.