The Empire of HimDyr is a large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 91 million HimDyrians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 52.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient HimDyrian economy, worth 4.32 trillion Hessls a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,418 Hessls, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists, every fourth child is born with flippers instead of hands, the nation's new currency features full-length portraits of Leader in ermine and velvet garb, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Direwolf. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HimDyr's national animal is the Direwolf.

HimDyr is ranked 131,169^th in the world and 36^th in Wintercrest for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,696.39 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.