The Empire of Hellghon is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Autarch Tendon Cobar with an iron fist, and remarkable for its national health service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.227 billion Hellghasts are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while International Aid and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyrrhus. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Hellghonian economy, worth 612 trillion Vektans a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 189,712 Vektans, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 869,300 per year while the poor average 25,169, a ratio of 34.5 to 1.

Surveys show 100% of Hellghasts are never, ever tired, severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land, cities in Hellghon declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings, and former jazz musicians play freeform silence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Hellghon's national animal is the Steppe Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Helga.

Hellghon is ranked 7,643^rd in the world and 40^th in Fifth Empire for Most Corrupt Governments, with 185.63 kickbacks per hour.