The Democratic States of Hertandie is a huge, genial nation, notable for its smutty television, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 515 million Hertandieans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Hertandiean economy, worth 18.4 trillion dollars 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 35,720 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hertandiean husbands are dead good at fathering kids, children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law, and people boast about their low income on their dating profiles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hertandie's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Hertandie is ranked 227,675^th in the world and 321^st in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Populations, with 515 million capita.