The Kingdom of Herconia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by King William I De Gallaecus-Echamon with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 17.483 billion Herconians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xenopolis. The average income tax rate is 86.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Herconian economy, worth 994 trillion Sovereigns a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 56,879 Sovereigns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, commuters often break into synchronised para-para dancing for no reason at all, and planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Herconia's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Herconia is ranked 71,760^th in the world and 8^th in The Heartland for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 79.24 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.