The Principality of Hyperico is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, pith helmet sales, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 419 million Hypericoi are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 24.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Hypericoi economy, worth 16.7 trillion Hypoes a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 39,825 Hypoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents who reward their teens' chores with concert tickets are charged with illegal reselling, protests are illegal, historical fiction has been banned, and organ donation is compulsory. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hyperico's national animal is the Hyena, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Hyperico is ranked 189,688^th in the world and 14^th in Hyperico for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 744.5 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.