The PS2 Puppet of Heliosphere is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, ubiquitous missile silos, and smutty television. The compassionate, humorless population of 11.537 billion Heliospherans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government is primarily concerned with Education, although Environment, Industry, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heliosphere City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Heliospheran economy, worth a remarkable 6,527 trillion Novas 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Information Technology and Cheese Exports. 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 a breathtaking 565,795 Novas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors, grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines, primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment Leader's hair, and tourists outnumber citizens two to one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Heliosphere's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Heliosphere is ranked 219,274^th in the world and 7,126^th in the South Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -13.39 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.