The Heliarchy of Rykil is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Heliarch with an even hand, and renowned for its digital currency, prohibition of alcohol, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 17.114 billion Ryks are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prime Corona. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Rykilian economy, worth a remarkable 4,272 trillion MEUS a year, is fairly diversified and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 249,657 MEUS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license, beatboxing has replaced the 'Wilhelm scream' as the nation's most popular sound effect, and undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rykil's national animal is the Ur-Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Supernaturalism.

Rykil is ranked 14,870^th in the world and 9^th in The Galactics Union for Most Patriotic, with 58.75 flags saluted per person per day.