The Peoples Republic of Halcyen is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Esma Cheswick with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, vat-grown people, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.871 billion Halcyenians 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panacea. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Halcyenian economy, worth 828 trillion Betrayals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 170,113 Betrayals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Slavery has been abolished, home renovation shows are increasingly popular, what's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans, and putting houses on stilts is elevating house porches and prices alike. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Halcyen's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Halcyen is ranked 23,676^th in the world and 1,284^th in Osiris for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,556.56 on the Gilded Widget Scale.