The Hull of a Ship of Hulldom is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Gil Walsingham with an even hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, ritual sacrifices, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.324 billion Hulldomians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gorton City. The average income tax rate is 88.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hulldomian economy, worth a remarkable 1,033 trillion Great Pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 194,136 Great Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A few people seem to spend their whole time complaining, the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly, mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, and jokes told in elementary school often come back to haunt politicians. Crime is totally unknown. Hulldom's national animal is the Rutter, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Hulldom is ranked 205,945^th in the world and 47^th in Maastricht for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.53 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.