The Empire of Hennetu is a titanic, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 10.9 billion Hennetuans 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Spirituality, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Hennetuan economy, worth 360 trillion Dollars 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 slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, 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 33,064 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, Hennetu City University is said to be the modern-day Tower of Babel, and the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hennetu's national animal is the Black Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hennetu is ranked 250,027^th in the world and 5,712^th in eta for Nicest Citizens, with 6.84 average smiles per day.