The Forerunners of Hyperion Prime is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Premier Hyper with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 8.17 billion Hyperions are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eternal Horizon. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Hyperion economy, worth a remarkable 2,122 trillion Credits 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 Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 259,778 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers, and the thrash metal version of the national anthem is topping charts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hyperion Prime's national animal is the Insular Goose, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Hyperion Prime is ranked 7,826^th in the world and 84^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 127 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.