The Confederacy of Global Helvetia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, vat-grown people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 286 million Global Helvetians 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 medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 44.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Global Helvetian economy, worth 17.7 trillion Global Francs a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,943 Global Francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

History textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, foreign investment has dropped to a trickle after laws were passed preventing investors from taking their earnings abroad, weekends are spent tilting at windmills, and the endangered saltwater humpback Friedenstaube is only seen in captivity programs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Global Helvetia's national animal is the Friedenstaube, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Global Helvetia is ranked 189,144^th in the world and 3,123^rd in The East Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.