The Monitor of Hades of Namwenian Hellhole is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Sabrina Morningstar with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, soft-spoken computers, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, cynical population of 5.115 billion Namwenians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pandemonium. The average income tax rate is 86.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Namwenian economy, worth 444 trillion coals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. Average income is 86,814 coals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, the guillotine's a-swingin' all night long, children are shocked to find out that books don't scroll, and when flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Namwenian Hellhole's national animal is the Cerberus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nil.

Namwenian Hellhole is ranked 13,761^st in the world and 1^st in Hellhole for Nicest Citizens, with 26.36 average smiles per day.