The Corporate Conglomerate of Happy Hot Dog is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Judas Fern with a fair hand, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 9.843 billion Happy Hot Dogians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mustard. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Happy Hot Dogian economy, worth a remarkable 1,396 trillion ketchup packets a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 141,920 ketchup packets, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 491,943 per year while the poor average 29,890, a ratio of 16.5 to 1.

Advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, Judas Fern's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, and the government funds large training centres to turn panthers into functioning members of society. Crime is totally unknown. Happy Hot Dog's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Happy Hot Dog is ranked 93,790^th in the world and 16^th in Vending Emporium for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.66 law-abiding acts per hour.