The Republic of Hirilonde is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.495 billion Hirilondeans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Law & Order, with Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The thriving Hirilondean economy, worth 421 trillion rubledollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 76,772 rubledollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 271,750 per year while the poor average 15,660, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Hirilonde's national animal is the hawk, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Hirilonde is ranked 117,796^th in the world and 1,968^th in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 19.89 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.