The Revolutionary Socialist Rep of Helsingdal is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Aghvardh Nordvall with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 11.607 billion Helsingis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vitterånge. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Helsingdalian economy, worth a remarkable 2,907 trillion Spesmiloj a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 250,474 Spesmiloj, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Museum visitors often bring lemons and black lights, cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Helsingdal's national animal is the Lynx, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Asatro.

Helsingdal is ranked 321,969^th in the world and 7^th in Esperanto for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 12.74 on the Kitten Softness Rating.