The Galactic Autarchy of Magna Hyperion is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Jean-Luc Picard with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate population of 25.427 billion Hyperians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trantor. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Hyperian economy, worth a remarkable 1,433 trillion Hyperian Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,364 Hyperian Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, the study of medicine is popular throughout Magna Hyperion, warfare increasingly resembles a video game, and the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in Trantor for fear of causing a fuss. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Magna Hyperion's national animal is the Space Ostrich, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Hyperionism.

Magna Hyperion is ranked 159,213^th in the world and 7^th in New Hyperion for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 343.61 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.