The Town Gossip of Helen Lovejoy is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Helen Lovejoy with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 9.91 billion Helen Lovejoyians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Springfield. The average income tax rate is 50.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Helen Lovejoyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,240 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 125,141 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

A favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum, and proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers. Crime is totally unknown. Helen Lovejoy's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Helen Lovejoy is ranked 24,987^th in the world and 24^th in 4chan for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 7,709.8 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.