The Oppressed Peoples of The High Temperature Areas is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Mr Pig with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 929 million High Temperature Areasians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order and Administration are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caracas. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong High Temperature Areasian economy, worth 104 trillion Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 112,564 Rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, and families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The High Temperature Areas's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The High Temperature Areas is ranked 7,280^th in the world and 153^rd in the South Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 70.78 flags saluted per person per day.