The Republic of Heladin is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, complete lack of prisons, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 950 million Heladinians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chespinopolis. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Heladinian economy, worth 112 trillion heladoes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 118,222 heladoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pretending to be prejudiced is a good way to get out of jury duty, Heladinian tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, referenda are held for every conceivable government action, and the best defense is a good fence. Crime is totally unknown. Heladin's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Heladin is ranked 15,885^th in the world and 565^th in The North Pacific for Smartest Citizens, with 75.88 quips per hour.