The Military Government of The Helleness is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Ljubia Mauzer Savic with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.035 billion Hellenessians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novi Beograd. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hellenessian economy, worth 793 trillion Phoenixes 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 131,429 Phoenixes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Re-education centers are being added to most prisons, the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb, the government is washing its hands of alleged corruption, and escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Helleness's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is State Atheism.

The Helleness is ranked 12,518^th in the world and 295^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 363.8 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.