The Շ๏אเς ђєɭɭรςคקє of Trash Heap is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Bₐₙₙₑd ₜₕₑ ₚᵣₒₕᵢbᵢₜₑd with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, feral children, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.034 billion ₘᵤₜₐₜₑd ₗᵤₘₚₛ ₒf fₑₛₜₑᵣᵢₙg bₒᵢₗₛ are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order and Spirituality also on the agenda, while Environment and Education aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ₘᵢddₑₙ wₐₗₗₒwₛ. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient ₘᵤₜₐₜᵢₙg ₐₙd Fₑₛₜₑᵣᵢₙg economy, worth a remarkable 1,008 trillion Gₐᵣbₐgₑs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 332,539 Gₐᵣbₐgₑs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed, family bonding sessions are considered immoral and are banned, warfare increasingly resembles a video game, and the nation won three wars against Brancaland this weekend. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Trash Heap's national animal is the ₜₒₓᵢc fₐcₛᵢₘᵢₗₑ ₒf ₐ ᵥₑᵣy ₑₓₜᵢₙcₜ ₐₙᵢₘₐₗ, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is ₜₕₑ Dₑₜᵣᵢₜᵤₛ ₐₚₒₛₜₑₘₐₜₑ.

Trash Heap is ranked 12,963^rd in the world and 11^th in Hell for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,735.75 on the Gilded Widget Scale.