The Grand Duchy of Exteriores Insulae Hyacinthum is a huge, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 346 million Exteriores Insulae Hyacinthumians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fundamenta Cordis. The average income tax rate is 56.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Exteriores Insulae Hyacinthumian economy, worth 22.7 trillion chartas a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,549 chartas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gossip magazines have pictures of Leader sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, the government is proud to report that ten percent of all tax revenue goes to funding suspected terrorist organizations, visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub, and vacationers and business travelers are often warned that they may lose the right to vote if they spend too much time overseas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Exteriores Insulae Hyacinthum's national animal is the sea otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Exteriores Insulae Hyacinthum is ranked 5,469^th in the world and 487^th in The North Pacific for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 107.8 Bank.