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The Kingdom of Heristal Raposhystru is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its national health service, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 576 million Heristals are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Monarita. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Heristal Raposhystruan economy, worth 64.2 trillion Arohis a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 111,516 Arohis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Many aides in Leader's office are known to be serial jaywalkers, state media features lively debates such as whether pineapple on pizza is an acceptable topping, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heristal Raposhystru's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Heristal Raposhystru is ranked 28,966^th in the world and 14^th in MHBs New Earth for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 5,162.86 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.