The Nature's Burning Wrath of Scorching Heatwave is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed population of 1.626 billion Scorching Heatwaveans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 24.7%.

The Scorching Heatwavean economy, worth 74.7 trillion golds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,931 golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices, the colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia, citizens must have a license to operate a computer, and there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scorching Heatwave's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Scorching Heatwave is ranked 126,014^th in the world and 2^nd in Ferngill Federation for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.12 law-abiding acts per hour.