The United Socialist States of Last Outer Heaven is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Premier Rodriguez with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and daily referendums. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 17.578 billion Heavenians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zanzibar. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Heavenian economy, worth a remarkable 5,256 trillion New Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 299,064 New Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, posters on 'Heavenian Values' advise against being proud of Last Outer Heaven, and the nation is committed to nuclear rearmament. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Last Outer Heaven's national animal is the Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Last Outer Heaven is ranked 911^th in the world and 8^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 19,163.89 on the Gilded Widget Scale.