The Empire of Herya is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Emperor Heirich with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 17.543 billion Heryae 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 Jawadeen. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Heryae economy, worth a remarkable 7,857 trillion Bizantiums 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 447,891 Bizantiums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, the rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities, stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, and citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections. Crime is totally unknown. Herya's national animal is the Centaur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Herya is ranked 816^th in the world and 5^th in Portugal for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 42,339.01 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.