The United Socialist States of Hygania ImPErivm is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 604 million Hygania ImPErivmians 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 enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. The average income tax rate is 69.1%.

The sizeable but inefficient Hygania ImPErivmian economy, worth 28.0 trillion Gyrutages a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 46,283 Gyrutages, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

The nation is famous for bravely sending wave after wave of its soldiers until the enemy runs out of bullets, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away, and all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Berlin. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hygania ImPErivm's national animal is the Hygania Mirvana, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hygania ImPErivm is ranked 223,635^th in the world and 19^th in The Power Gulids II for Healthiest Citizens, with 0.87 bananas ingested per day.