The Revolutionary Socialist Rep of Helsingdal is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Aghvardh Nordvall with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 11.273 billion Helsingis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vitterånge. The average income tax rate is 94.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Helsingdalian economy, worth a remarkable 2,796 trillion Spesmiloj 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, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. 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 an amazing 248,091 Spesmiloj, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, it turns out that trees grow on Spesmiloj, and the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Vitterånge. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Helsingdal's national animal is the Lynx, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Asatro.

Helsingdal is ranked 294,677^th in the world and 7^th in Esperanto for Nicest Citizens, with 0.42 average smiles per day.