The Empire of Hellghon is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Autarch Tendon Cobar with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.613 billion Hellghasts are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while International Aid and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyrrhus. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Hellghonian economy, worth 693 trillion Vektans a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 191,981 Vektans, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 841,283 per year while the poor average 27,592, a ratio of 30.5 to 1.

Dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, netizens fiercely argue over who loves Autarch Tendon Cobar more, cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags, and pet owners exercise their Steppe Eagles at a snail's pace or risk prosecution. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Hellghon's national animal is the Steppe Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Helga.

Hellghon is ranked 27,218^th in the world and 74^th in Fifth Empire for Most Developed, scoring 84.04 on the Human Development Index.