The Countryball of HekpBall is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, disturbing lack of elderly people, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.497 billion HekpBallians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The frighteningly efficient HekpBallian economy, worth 160 trillion Unknowns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 107,456 Unknowns, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 978,317 per year while the poor average 1,333, a ratio of 733 to 1.

A major religion has been named as HekpBall's national religion, emigrants arrive on foreign shores with nothing but pocket sand, the HekpBallian Tourism Bureau has described the abolition of coastal defences as a "kick to the groyne", and tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. HekpBall's national animal is the Unknown, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

HekpBall is ranked 335,093^rd in the world and 10^th in Norwood for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring zero on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.