The Hellscape of What the heck is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 934 million Heckians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Desert Eagle. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.3%.

The strong What the heckian economy, worth 76.1 trillion 9mm shell casings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,489 9mm shell casings, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 512,371 per year while the poor average 5,459, a ratio of 93.8 to 1.

Teddy bears and pajamas have replaced briefcases and suits in What the heck's offices, having only one wallet stolen in a day is considered a cause for celebration, employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired, and taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. What the heck's national animal is the blobfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

What the heck is ranked 178,625^th in the world and 2^nd in The Hellian committee for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 316.86 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.