The Democratic Republic of Heathera is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 509 million Heatherans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heathe City. The average income tax rate is 58.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Heatheran economy, worth 41.3 trillion Leafes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 81,137 Leafes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Edutainment video games are taking Heathera's students to the next level, celebrity chefs are thought to be the progenitors of all food, the government is washing its hands of alleged corruption, and hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heathera's national animal is the Gecko, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Heathera is ranked 65,245^th in the world and 643^rd in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 4,352.3 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.