The Republic of Hope Woven Dragon Spider Shark is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, daily referendums, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 4.108 billion Hope Woven Dragon Spider Sharkians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Hope Woven Dragon Spider Sharkian economy, worth 465 trillion Cards a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,341 Cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 412,842 per year while the poor average 22,116, a ratio of 18.7 to 1.

There's more pink stuff on sale these days, citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets, among slaves 'bastard' is an honorific rather than an insult, and returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hope Woven Dragon Spider Shark's national animal is the Kuriboh, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hope Woven Dragon Spider Shark is ranked 25,797^th in the world and 191^st in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,209.03 on the Gilded Widget Scale.