The Rússian Federation of Hope couny is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Jason Frollo with an iron fist, and notable for its fear of technology, avowedly heterosexual populace, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.594 billion Hoperists 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moskow. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Hope counyian economy, worth 337 trillion kaisers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,435 kaisers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance, citizens are more concerned about voting for Big Brother contestants than politicians, shopkeepers use microscopes to verify the authenticity of banknotes, and the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hope couny's national animal is the hottweiler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Buddhism.

Hope couny is ranked 259,482^nd in the world and 5,436^th in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8.12 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.