The Commonwealth of Hintuwan is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Bulalacao with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, ritual sacrifices, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 2.955 billion Hintuwanis are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Industry, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haijing. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Hintuwani economy, worth 273 trillion piloncitoes a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Automobile Manufacturing, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 92,461 piloncitoes, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 482,502 per year while the poor average 9,537, a ratio of 50.6 to 1.

Grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices, jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration, citizens are expected to be armed at all times, and raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Hintuwan's national animal is the carabao and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Hintuwan is ranked 261,226^th in the world and 207^th in The Western Isles for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -161.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.