The Community of Hippy Ice Cream is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Ben N Jerry with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, complete lack of prisons, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 15.831 billion Hippy Ice Creamians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Half Baked. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Hippy Ice Creamian economy, worth 532 trillion Chunky Monkeys a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 33,613 Chunky Monkeys, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color", social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, sections of the police receive paramilitary training, and funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hippy Ice Cream's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Americoneism.

Hippy Ice Cream is ranked 74,725^th in the world and 34^th in International Democratic Union for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.2 law-abiding acts per hour.