The Child King of Herobics is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Child King with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, enslaved workforce, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 11.455 billion Heroes are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Family of Heroes. The average income tax rate is 89.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Heroic economy, worth a remarkable 2,695 trillion Oaths 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. 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 235,280 Oaths, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Workers plan vacations during election season, the line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, and news programs are delivered by men in gold suits spinning a wheel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Herobics's national animal is the Word of Honour, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Family and Heroism.

Herobics is ranked 2,349^th in the world and 1^st in Haiku for Largest Black Market, with 4,179 trillion Standard Monetary Units.