The Dreaming Spiral of Hetonika is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by The Delirious Shadow with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.964 billion Dreamwalkers are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Ivory Gate. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Dreaming economy, worth 592 trillion Crystaline Tears a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and dominated by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 99,349 Crystaline Tears, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 464,790 per year while the poor average 12,686, a ratio of 36.6 to 1.

Military officials are questioning the policy of ceding the nation's territory in exchange for promises not to invade it, weathermen are being arrested for attempting to read the future, there's more pink stuff on sale these days, and commercial breaks often lead to nervous breakdowns. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Hetonika's national animal is the Sleeping Weaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Hollow Sleep.

Hetonika is ranked 12,651^st in the world and 52^nd in the Outback for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5,604.69 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.