The People's Republic of The Holy See of Herbert Hoover is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Herbert Hoover with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, daily referendums, and state-planned economy. The cynical population of 1.491 billion Holy See of Herbert Hooverians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Clartican City. The average income tax rate is 76.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Holy See of Herbert Hooverian economy, worth 41.6 trillion The Herbertian papers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 27,932 The Herbertian papers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Holy See of Herbert Hoover recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace, citizens wouldn't recognise Herbert Hoover if they passed one another on the street, ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box, and Herbert Hoover has just been declared ruler of The Holy See of Herbert Hoover in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Holy See of Herbert Hoover's national animal is the Grizzly Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Lake Mead.

The Holy See of Herbert Hoover is ranked 18,029^th in the world and 1,045^th in Lazarus for Safest, scoring 114.74 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.