The Empire of Heliosland is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.792 billion Heliosians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gromograd. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Helioslandian economy, worth 329 trillion Red Star Coins 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 117,900 Red Star Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Helioslandian Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, the police think a properly conducted criminal investigation is a real pain, and unemployed mercenaries drift the country looking for new careers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heliosland's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Heliosland is ranked 26,587^th in the world and 1,623^rd in Osiris for Highest Food Quality, scoring 85.82 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.