The Free Land of Private Hero is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 12.744 billion Private Heroans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hope. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Private Heroan economy, worth 585 trillion pieces of eight a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 45,973 pieces of eight, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Private Heroan Intelligence Agency has put 'Project Quantum Refrigerator' on hold indefinitely, confused drunks wake up to irate drill sergeants whipping them into shape, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Private Heroans any less frightened. Crime is totally unknown. Private Hero's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Private Hero is ranked 317,459^th in the world and 16^th in Gay Equality for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.