The Republic of Eidolon helvum is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its lack of airports, frequent executions, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate population of 990 million Eidolon helvumians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Eidolon helvumian economy, worth 81.5 trillion Puppets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 82,272 Puppets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, kindhearted Eidolon helvumians generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries, the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, and EH-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eidolon helvum's national animal is the Puppet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eidolon helvum is ranked 114,623^rd in the world and 6,213^th in Osiris for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,469.76 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.