The Blessed Blue Sojourn of Unheilig is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Shemyaza of the Nephilim with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 14.028 billion Unheiligers 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.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Verboten. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Unheilig economy, worth a remarkable 1,418 trillion Bartered Bits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 101,114 Bartered Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rare art has become a significant factor in negotiating all foreign trade agreements, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed, and national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first. Crime is totally unknown. Unheilig's national animal is the red lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Symphony of Blasphemous Sounds.

Unheilig is ranked 3,446^th in the world and 58^th in the West Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 63.33 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.