The People's Republic of Honey Cake is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its frequent executions, complete lack of prisons, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 509 million Cakeaens 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Purgatoria. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Cakean economy, worth 35.1 trillion £ honeys a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 69,042 £ honeys, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is suspected of mass disappearing dissidents both at home and abroad, the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm, hit TV show 'The eXecution Factor' is a critical success, and strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Honey Cake's national animal is the great honey bee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Honey Cake is ranked 176,997^th in the world and 5,928^th in the South Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 39.6 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.