The Holy Dáxlamic Woodlands of Monks Hill is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Lýderis Bradford John with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 5.3 billion Monks Hillians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pagan Hill. The average income tax rate is 78.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Monks Hillian economy, worth 162 trillion Dáxlamic Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 30,694 Dáxlamic Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present, airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room, the nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks, and the sick and dying are locked in their homes with a red "X" painted on the front door. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Monks Hill's national animal is the Dáxlamic Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dáxlam.

Monks Hill is ranked 107,538^th in the world and 100^th in Declansburg for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,717.26 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.