The Empire of Hetzberg is a tiny, cultured nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 12 million Hetzbergians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.6%.

The strong Hetzbergian economy, worth 685 billion Hetzberg Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 57,067 Hetzberg Marks, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Meetings involving club finances are frequently broken up by men in black suits, more and more students are taking up a career in medicine, for just a few extra Hetzberg Marks Hetzbergians can get new driving records with their new cars, and fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hetzberg's national animal is the Eagle.

Hetzberg is ranked 127,699^th in the world and 647^th in Europeia for Most Developed, scoring 57.88 on the Human Development Index.