The Rússian Federation of Hope couny is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jason Frollo with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, enslaved workforce, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.666 billion Hoperists are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moskow. The average income tax rate is 74.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Hope counyian economy, worth 338 trillion kaisers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 72,556 kaisers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars, the nation refuses to provide international aid, and film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hope couny's national animal is the hottweiler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Buddhism.

Hope couny is ranked 283,682^nd in the world and 6,260^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -134.11 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.