The Kingdom of Himio is a large, genial nation, renowned for its daily referendums and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 195 million Himioans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 13.1%.

The Himioan economy, worth 8.91 trillion Oiis a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 45,694 Oiis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, and harassed women are constantly hassled by guys who are "just giving them compliments". Crime is moderate, probably because of the absence of a police force. Himio's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Himio is ranked 55,583^rd in the world and 4^th in Kaira for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.