The Dominion of Higgins Road is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 10.966 billion Higgins Roadians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 61.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Higgins Roadian economy, worth 339 trillion Euros 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, Retail, and Trout Farming. 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 30,921 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Higgins Road's national animal is the Zebra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Higgins Road is ranked 159,864^th in the world and 1,894^th in Artificial Solar System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 60.16 law-abiding acts per hour.