The Republic of HJT419 is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, parental licensing program, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed population of 1.113 billion HJT419ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 45.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The HJT419ian economy, worth 41.4 trillion liberatuses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,216 liberatuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The entire entry for HJT419 in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', major cities are suffering under water rationing, signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars, and the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HJT419's national animal is the griffin.

HJT419 is ranked 100,373^rd in the world and 5,347^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,444.34 on the Gilded Widget Scale.