The Kingdom of Heobei is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, cynical population of 558 million Heobese are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 9.9%.

The very strong Heobese economy, worth 35.7 trillion Euns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 63,931 Euns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, Heobei has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, Tiger sanctuaries have been taken over by hydraulic fracturing sites, and the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Heobei. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heobei's national animal is the Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Heobei is ranked 250,954^th in the world and 4,379^th in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -29.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.