The People's Republic of Revolutionary Hesse is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.258 billion Revolutionary Hesseans 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kassel. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Revolutionary Hessean economy, worth 27.9 trillion Socialist German Marks 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 led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 22,159 Socialist German Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police drones follow every suspected Peeping Tom, mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, Bigtopian relations have become a minefield, and Revolutionary Hesse has designated Kassel as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Revolutionary Hesse's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Revolutionary Hesse is ranked 239,495^th in the world and 876^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.8 kickbacks per hour.