The State of Hot Spring is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of public education, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 17.591 billion Hot Springians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The very strong Hot Springian economy, worth 744 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is 42,347 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 287,909 per year while the poor average 2,275, a ratio of 126 to 1.

Voting is voluntary. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Hot Spring's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hot Spring is ranked 267,049^th in the world and 591^st in Ancient Lands for Safest, scoring 12.44 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.