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The Precious Taters of Hobbitat is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Toeless Bob with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, otherworldly petting zoo, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 45.144 billion Hobbitots are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nutbush City. The average income tax rate is 1.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hobbitatian economy, worth an astonishing 22,511 trillion hairy toes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 498,649 hairy toes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

City rooftops are pockmarked with the shattered remains of high velocity delivery drones, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, and schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hobbitat's national animal is the lemming, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Hobbitat is ranked 2,056^th in the world and 3^rd in Antarctica for Most Pacifist, with 182.88 cheeks turned per day.