The Most Serene Republic of Heretical Paradise is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Bill Nye with an even hand, and renowned for its vat-grown people, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.856 billion Heretical Paradiseans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Epicurus. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Heretical Paradisean economy, worth a remarkable 1,080 trillion Christian Tears a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 137,522 Christian Tears, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People with dyslexia are told to tough through it, the black market offers sweet deals, doctors are learning that red tape makes ineffective bandages, and the threat of economic apocalypse brings out the best in people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Heretical Paradise's national animal is the Reticulated Python, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Heretical Paradise is ranked 324,878^th in the world and 567^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring zero on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.