The Hills of Heukelom is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Chaos with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, disturbing lack of elderly people, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 37.41 billion Heukelomians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heukelom. The average income tax rate is 56.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Heukelomian economy, worth a remarkable 5,075 trillion frangs 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 impressive 135,661 frangs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pet owners are granted clemency from being ritually sacrificed, frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Heukelom Natural History Museum, and the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heukelom's national animal is the tomato, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Paganism.

Heukelom is ranked 312,332^nd in the world and 102^nd in belgium for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -12.98 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.