The Heliarchy of Rykil is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by The Heliarch with an even hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, national health service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 21.162 billion Ryks are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prime Corona. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Rykilian economy, worth a remarkable 5,013 trillion MEUS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 236,930 MEUS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Ryks, politicians suffer insomnia after a former small-town mayor released her searing bestseller 'Deboning Political Turkeys: Primed for Minister', and arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated. 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 63,668^th in the world and 16^th in The Galactics Union for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 11,160.93 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.