The Power of Heavy Metal is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its public floggings, infamous sell-swords, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 14.764 billion Heavy Metalians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 62.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Heavy Metalian economy, worth a remarkable 1,844 trillion Golds a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 124,912 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Appendix transplant figures have recently doubled, citizens can freely debate whether Leader is a great leader or the greatest leader, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, and captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heavy Metal's national animal is the Bat and its national religion is Heavy Metal.

Heavy Metal is ranked 38,744^th in the world and 2,475^th in Balder for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 5,341.42 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.