The Dictatorship of Helghan Corporation is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Autarch Scolar Visari with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, pith helmet sales, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.721 billion Helghast 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyrrhus City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.9%.

The thriving Helghast economy, worth 304 trillion Purezkis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Soda Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 81,710 Purezkis, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 284,710 per year while the poor average 17,073, a ratio of 16.7 to 1.

Veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing, the government is reining in public spending, no one is worried about government policies any more, and holiday light displays just aren't the same without seizure-inducing strobe effects. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Helghan Corporation's national animal is the Helghan Spider, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Teuthism.

Helghan Corporation is ranked 45,144^th in the world and 1^st in Helghan Corporation for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.