The Marijuana of The High Times Cannabis Cup is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Horticulturist with a fair hand, and notable for its public floggings, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.07 billion High Times Cannabis Cupians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amsterdam. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient High Times Cannabis Cupian economy, worth a remarkable 5,332 trillion ounces a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 221,559 ounces, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, vaccinations are mandatory, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", and town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists. Crime is totally unknown. The High Times Cannabis Cup's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cannabis Spirituality.

The High Times Cannabis Cup is ranked 668^th in the world and 2^nd in The Cannabis Region for Most Beautiful Environments, with 6,049.8 pounds of wildlife per square mile.