The Republic of Heliostats is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and compulsory vegetarianism. The humorless population of 4.911 billion Heliostatsians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 56.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Heliostatsian economy, worth 258 trillion pesos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 52,586 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens sport solarium-kissed tans that are perfectly even except for the occasional melanoma, the army spends more time producing 'romantic videos' than actually training soldiers, factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, and soldiers are issued comics about superheroes punching unflattering caricatures of their enemies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heliostats's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Heliostats is ranked 208,322^nd in the world and 1^st in Helio for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 241.11 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.