The United Socialist States of Last Outer Heaven is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by General Secretary Rojas with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 22.769 billion Heavenians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zanzibar. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Heavenian economy, worth a remarkable 7,263 trillion Heavenian Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 319,002 Heavenian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls, Last Outer Heaven's citizens often wander into each other's homes, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, and annulments are on the rise as couples discover their ancestors were born in the same hospitals. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Last Outer Heaven's national animal is the Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Last Outer Heaven is ranked 240^th in the world and 10^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 215.54 on the Kitten Softness Rating.