The National Republic of Hettic is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mossy Savachi with an even hand, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, sprawling nuclear power plants, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.633 billion Hetticians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Houndban. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hettician economy, worth 461 trillion Hekenzes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,035 Hekenzes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's harder to qualify for IVF than for a good university, citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy, protests are legal but strictly supervised, and there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hettic's national animal is the Hettic lunger big cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Zelism.

Hettic is ranked 248,230^th in the world and 8,448^th in Balder for Most Primitive, scoring -146.27 on the Scary Big Number Scale.