The Retired Daimyo of Hotti is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Kitty with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 28.011 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokyo. The average income tax rate is 1.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Hottian economy, worth a remarkable 5,473 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 195,403 Yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 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 serious 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 6,968^th in the world and 2^nd in Feudal Japan for Highest Average Incomes, with 195,403.34 Standard Monetary Units.