The Tenebris Paradisi of Heavens Reach is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Children Eternal with a fair hand, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.714 billion Luminaries 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 enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urbs Justitia Infinita. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Paradisian economy, worth a remarkable 3,427 trillion Seraphs 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 218,113 Seraphs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping, and polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums. Crime is totally unknown. Heavens Reach's national animal is the Charaxes cithaeron, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Aeonic Revelation.

Heavens Reach is ranked 307,301^st in the world and 1,802^nd in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -28.34 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.