The End is Nigh of Time of Gehenna is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 15.669 billion Harbingers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Public Transport, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Time of Gehennan economy, worth 376 trillion nones 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Gambling. 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 24,043 nones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, TOG-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal, and citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Time of Gehenna's national animal is the none, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Time of Gehenna is ranked 303,137^th in the world and 3^rd in Gehenna for Nicest Citizens, with 0.94 average smiles per day.