The Kingdom of Heristal Raposhystru is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 351 million Heristals 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Monarita. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Heristal Raposhystruan economy, worth 32.6 trillion Arohis a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,770 Arohis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Priests are being drafted by the church load, diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, bicyclists are banned from major roads, and a handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heristal Raposhystru's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Heristal Raposhystru is ranked 76,032^nd in the world and 19^th in MHBs New Earth for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 3,491.93 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.