The Holy Empire of Holy Cheese Empire is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 203 million Holy Cheese Empireans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Spirituality, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 18.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Holy Cheese Empirean economy, worth 8.73 trillion Cheeseses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,006 Cheeseses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas", doctors refer to inner-cities as newbie zones, and the nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Eckie-Ecola and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed. Crime is totally unknown. Holy Cheese Empire's national animal is the Cheese, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Holy Cheese Empire is ranked 67,166^th in the world and 92^nd in Eurth for Most Cultured, scoring 69 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.