The Armed Republic of Heronias is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Supreme Leader Hero Hunter with an iron fist, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, anti-smoking policies, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.305 billion Heronians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Owls Perch. The average income tax rate is 77.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Heronian economy, worth 494 trillion Tencs 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. 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 an amazing 214,403 Tencs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Bands of adventurers rove the countryside searching for monsters, thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors, on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, and the government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heronias's national animal is the Owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Heronias is ranked 242,430^th in the world and 250^th in The Western Isles for Fattest Citizens, with 7.58 Obesity Rate.