The Republic of Hippopotato is a colossal, pleasant nation, notable for its strictly enforced bedtime and frequent executions. The quiet, industrious population of 7.769 billion Hippopotatoans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 19.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Hippopotatoan economy, worth 339 trillion pokecoins a year, is led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 43,754 pokecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Every week is blindness awareness week, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hippopotato's national animal is the Hippopotas.

Hippopotato is ranked 213,150^th in the world and 5,795^th in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 276.15 on the Gilded Widget Scale.