The Republic of Hiker Wario is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 3.539 billion Hiker Warioans 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 23.4%.

The all-consuming Hiker Warioan economy, worth 349 trillion Warian Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,848 Warian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, careless Maxémon Trainers have been the cause of numerous search and rescue operations, prison is a nightmare, and balaclava manufacturers are held criminally culpable for bank heists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hiker Wario's national animal is the Wario, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Hiker Wario is ranked 114,237^th in the world and 5,594^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.24 law-abiding acts per hour.