The Retired Daimyo of Hotti is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Kitty with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, daily referendums, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 27.212 billion Hottians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokyo. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Hottian economy, worth a remarkable 5,423 trillion Yen a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 199,290 Yen, with the richest citizens earning 8.2 times as much as the poorest.

Oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires, Little League matches are often attended by riot police with water cannon... just in case, getting an infected tattoo is considered a rite of passage in Hotti, and the government's official stance on scientific inquiry is 'there's no question so big that it can't be ignored'. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Hotti's national animal is the Fish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Shinto.

Hotti is ranked 37,513^th in the world and 3^rd in Feudal Japan for Rudest Citizens, with 78.44 Insults Per Minute.