The Confederacy of Global Helvetia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by the Federal Council of Global Helvetia with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.521 billion Global Helvetians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 82.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Global Helvetian economy, worth 186 trillion Global Francs 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 122,481 Global Francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Global Helvetian watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, and embarrassed police officers wear spandex and carry net guns. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Global Helvetia's national animal is the Friedenstaube, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Global Helvetia is ranked 221,856^th in the world and 3,681^st in The East Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.12 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.