The Not holy red Republic of 1st level of hell is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by master of desaster with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.285 billion 1st level of hellians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City of Oblivion. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient 1st level of hellian economy, worth 918 trillion souls a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 173,732 souls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors, environmental legislation occurs cyclically, knock-knock jokes regularly get removed from websites for being too edgy, and the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 1st level of hell's national animal is the demon thrall, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is gods dont exist.

1st level of hell is ranked 272,140^th in the world and 81^st in The Internationale for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.15 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.