The Village Federation of Hawkhurst and Sandhurst is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Matriarch Beverly Willey with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, ritual sacrifices, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.565 billion Hawkhurst and Sandhurstians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, although Law & Order, Defense, and Environment are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Highgate. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.8%.

The powerhouse Hawkhurst and Sandhurstian economy, worth 931 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Retail, and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 74,148 pounds, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Public executions just aren't the cheery spectacles they once were, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, and extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hawkhurst and Sandhurst's national animal is the hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Hawkhurst and Sandhurst is ranked 65,916^th in the world and 7^th in The Phoenix Imperium for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,921.46 on the Gilded Widget Scale.