The Union Republic of Clan Hyperion is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Melthast with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, vat-grown people, and digital currency. The cynical, humorless population of 8.724 billion Hyperions, 7.636 billion of whom are zombies, are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Melthiesian City. The average income tax rate is 95.5%.

The powerhouse Hyperion economy, worth a remarkable 1,209 trillion Hyperions a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 129,392 Hyperions, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Anti-riot police are dispatched whenever two elderly ladies gather to complain that prices have increased, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas", and Melthast is strangely popular with male politicians' wives. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Clan Hyperion's national animal is the Black Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Melthast.

Clan Hyperion is ranked 76,025^th in the world and 7^th in The Galactic Union for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 8,753.43 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.