The Empire of Helium Kittens United is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Floating Feline Empurror Wooldrizzle with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.955 billion Helium Kittens are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 44.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Helium Kittens Unitedian economy, worth 110 trillion memes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 56,320 memes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Anyone who so much as frowns risks being referred to a mental health unit, dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Helium Kittens United, and social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Helium Kittens United's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Helium Kittens United is ranked 44,207^th in the world and 2,004^th in The North Pacific for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 3,277.32 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.