The Basket Weaving Factory State of Hoffania is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Unit 0001 with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, zero percent divorce rate, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.147 billion Robots 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Factories 1-397. The average income tax rate is 63.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Robotian economy, worth a remarkable 3,111 trillion 1s and 0s 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 Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. 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 162,513 1s and 0s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Fair-weather fans talk during plays while die-hard theatre enthusiasts stay at home, the country is at the forefront of a 'peacekeeping' mission to secure power plants in war-torn Maxtopia, the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award, and a sincere statement of belief can get you out of anything. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Hoffania's national animal is the Robot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Cult of the Artificial Intelligence.

Hoffania is ranked 33,718^th in the world and 337^th in the Rejected Realms for Longest Average Lifespans, with 89.54 years.