The Military Democracy of El Hierro is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Pilar Llop with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and daily referendums. The compassionate, cheerful population of 8.584 billion El Hierroans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Villa de Valverde. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient El Hierroan economy, worth a remarkable 2,580 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 300,583 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers, 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, both criminals and civilians are DOA, and Pilar Llop's new socialist government gets its policy advice from teenagers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El Hierro's national animal is the El Hierro Giant Lizard, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

El Hierro is ranked 532^nd in the world and 1^st in Morpheus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 195.53 law-abiding acts per hour.